Tatjana Wood (

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) is an American artist and

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colorist.

Biography

Tatjana's father was

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, and her mother was

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. During

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, she and her brother, Karl Joachim Weintraub, were sent to an international

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boarding school in the

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. Gaining Dutch citizenship was not easy, so after World War II, the Quakers arranged for the two to travel to

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in 1947. Karl went on to the

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, while Tatjana stayed in New York, attending the Traphagen School of Fashion. In 1949, she met Wally Wood, and they married August 28, 1950. The couple divorced in 1966. During the 1950s and 1960s, she sometimes made uncredited contributions to Wood's artwork. One of the stories she worked on was "Carl Akeley" in

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' '' Two-Fisted Tales'' #41 (February–March 1955). She did a number of animal drawings for that story. Later, beginning in 1969, she did extensive work for

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as a comic book colorist. She was the main colorist for DC's covers from 1973 through the mid-1980s. Wood did coloring work on the interiors of comics as well, including Grant Morrison's acclaimed run on ''

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's issues of '' Swamp Thing'', and '' Camelot 3000''. She won the Shazam Award for Best Colorist in 1971 and 1974. Tatjana has had no significant credits in the comics industry since 2003. She is also a skilled dressmaker and weaver, who has crafted theatrical costumes and pictorial loom

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. Tatjana's brother Karl died March 25, 2004. He was a distinguished scholar at the

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)."Karl Joachim Weintraub,"
The University of Chicago News Office (March 26, 2004).

References

Sources

* ''Cartoonist PROfiles'' #15 (1972)
"DC Profiles #49"
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