Tatjana Wood

Tatjana Wood is an artist who was born Tatjana Weintraub in Darmstadt, Germany. Her father was Jewish, and her mother was Christian. During World War II, she and her brother, Karl Joachim Weintraub, were sent to an international Quaker boarding school in Holland. Gaining Dutch citizenship was not easy, so after WWII, the Quakers arranged for the two to travel to New York in 1947. He went on to the University of Chicago, while she stayed in New York, attending the Traphagen School of Fashion. In 1949, she met Wally Wood, and they married August 28, 1950.

During the 1950s and 1960s, she sometimes made uncredited contributions to Wood's artwork. As noted in "The Wallace Wood Checklist" (TwoMorrows, 2003), one of the stories she worked on was "Carl Akeley" in EC Comics's "Two-Fisted Tales" 41 (February-March 1955). She did a number of animal drawings for that story.

Later, she did extensive work for DC Comics as a comic book colorist, including Grant Morrison's acclaimed run on "Animal Man". She won the Shazam Award for Best Colorist in 1971 and 1974.

Her brother, Karl Joachim Weintraub, died March 25, 2004. He was a distinguished scholar at the University of Chicago and the author of two books, "Visions of Culture: Voltaire-Guizot-Burckhardt-Lamprecht-Huizinga-Ortega y Gassett" (1966) and "The Value of the Individual: Self and Circumstance in Autobiography" (1978).

External links

* [http://www.twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/08mccloud.html Scott McCloud on Tatjana Wood]
* [http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040326.weintraub.shtml Karl Joachim Weintraub]