Tatjana Wood

Tatjana Amalie Wood (née Weintraub; March 2, 1926 – February 27, 2026) was an American artist and comic book colorist.

Life and career Tatjana Weintraub was born in Darmstadt, Germany, on March 2, 1926. Her German mother, Elizabeth Hammel, who was Christian, ran a women’s clothing store. Her Russian-born father, Mische Weintraub, who was Jewish, was a photographer. During World War II, she and her brother, Karl Joachim Weintraub, were sent to an international Quaker boarding school in the Netherlands. 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, Wood sometimes made uncredited contributions to Wally Wood's artwork. One of the stories she worked on was "Carl Akeley" in EC Comics' Two-Fisted Tales #41 (February–March 1955). She did a number of animal drawings for that story.

Later, beginning in 1969, Her New York Times obituary points out that she colored nearly every DC comic cover during this time. and 1974. Wood has had no significant credits in the comics industry since 2003. In 2023, Wood was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.