Wally Wood-"Sin-Doll Ella." The Dirty Disgustin' Decayin' South

[jlroberson]

From MAD #35, one of Wood's best black-and-white humor pieces. It's always forgotten that as a humor cartoonist he gave Will Elder a run for his money. A mash-up of those things so fun to parody in the 50s: Brando and Tennessee Williams-based Southern Gothic films. Which I first read at 8 years old, in said South. Seemed about right to me. So: Cinderella(obviously), BABY DOLL, THE ROSE TATTOO, STREETCAR, FUGITIVE KIND, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, all at once. And this is very unkind to Anna Magnani.

Comments

[psychopathicus_rex]

Ohhhhhhh-kay. I can honestly say that's one version of Cinderella I've neither seen nor heard of before.

[halloweenjack]

Wally Wood: So talented, so twisted.