Tatjana Wood

 One of the great comic book colorists passed away recently.  

Tatjana Wood died February 27 at the age of 99.

Tatjana Wood around 1950. 

She was born Tatjana Weintraub  Darmstadt, Germany, on March 2, 1926.  She married artist Wally Wood in 1950 and worked as an assistant on some of his stories.

She went to work as a colorist for DC Comics where she provided colors for most of DC's covers from the 1970's and '80's.

Below is a sample of her cover color work for Tom Yeates' cover for Saga of the Swamp Thing#1.

Here are a couple of pages of her interior coloring work over Steve Bissette and John Totleben when Alan Moore was writing Swamp Thing.

In today's earlier post, I referenced that Swamp Thing and Abby Arcane have sex with the help of a sweet potato. 

Actually, it was a  yam.

And this spash page colored by Tatjana is from that issue.

Tatjana Wood was also the colorist for Camelot 3000 by Mike Barr and Brian Bolland. 

From The Question#1 by Denny O'Neil, Denys Cowan and Rick Magyar, dig Tatjana's use of blue to make the figure in the forefront pop and establish a tense and ominous mood. 

Tatjana won the Shazam Award in 1971 and 1974 for best colorist and was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame  in recognition of her talent and her contributions to the comic book industry in 2023. 

Any story with a color credit for Tatjana Wood was the promise of an issue that would at least look fantastic, elevating good art to great art.

Tatjana's gifts and talents were a blessing to the art of comic books and she will be missed.