1. Woodrow Gelman was a publisher, cartoonist, novelist and an artist-writer for both animation and comic books.
17 Facts About Woody Gelman
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Woody Gelman was the co-creator of Popsicle Pete and the co-creator of Bazooka Joe for Topps.
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Woody Gelman was a co-creator of Mars Attacks, adapted into the 1996 film by Tim Burton.
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Woody Gelman is the uncle of the psychologist Susan Gelman and the statistician Andrew Gelman.
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Woody Gelman was the creator and writer of talking animal feature "The Dodo and the Frog" for DC Comics.
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Woody Gelman had a partner in his art business named Ben Solomon who was out of animation.
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Solomon became the art director at Topps, and Woody Gelman was the creative director.
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Woody Gelman came back to New York in 1944 or 1945 and opened a studio, doing art advertising.
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Topps ultimately came to him, and the owner at that time was impressed with Woody Gelman and offered him a job.
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Woody Gelman closed down his art studio which he'd operated for seven or eight years.
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From 1953 to the late 1970s, Woody Gelman headed Topps's Product Development Department, working with a staff that included associate creative director Len Brown, gagwriter Stan Hart, visual concept creator Larry Reilly, writer-cartoonists Art Spiegelman and Bhob Stewart, and designer-cartoonist Rick Varesi.
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Woody Gelman assigned work to numerous freelance cartoonists, including Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Jay Lynch, Bob Powell, John Severin, Tom Sutton, Basil Wolverton and Wally Wood.
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One of the earliest Nostalgia Press books was The Picture History of Charlie Chaplin, designed by Woody Gelman and showcasing a large collection of rare Chaplin memorabilia.
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In 1973, Woody Gelman published a collection of Little Nemo strips, first published in Italy.
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Woody Gelman discovered original strips at a cartoon studio where McCay's son worked in 1966.
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Woody Gelman, who lived in Malverne, Long Island, maintained a collection of rare American and European periodicals dating back to the 19th century.
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Woody Gelman died February 9,1978, of a stroke at Franklin General Hospital, Valley Stream, Long Island.