Editing Witzend (section)

==Bill Pearson era==
After the fourth issue, Wood sold ''witzend'' to Pearson's Wonderful Publishing Company "for the sum of $1.00". Wood remained listed as founder and Editor Emeritus. After editing and publishing #5 (1968) by himself, Pearson co-published the next five issues with various other individuals/entities: #6 with Ed Glaser, #s 7, 8, and 9 with [[Phil Seuling]] (founder of the [[New York Comic Art Convention]] in 1968), and #10 with the [[CPL Gang]], a group of artists and writers who were publishing other fanzines such as ''[[Charlton Bullseye (fanzine)|Charlton Bullseye]]'', and ''[[CPL (fanzine)|CPL]]'' (''Contemporary Pictorial Literature''); from #11 on, Pearson was sole publisher and editor. These post-Wood issues edited by Pearson continued to explore new avenues with contributions from [[Vaughn Bode]], Eisner, [[Jeff Jones (artist)|Jeff Jones]], Wood, [[Bernie Wrightson]], Kenneth Smith, [[Alex Toth]], [[Roy G. Krenkel]], [[Mike Hinge]] and many others. Pearson also assembled two theme issues: the final issue #13 (1985) was titled ''Good Girls''—without the ''witzend'' logo on the front cover—containing diverse drawings of women, and #9 (1973) was a non-comics issue profiling [[W. C. Fields]], due to then co-publisher Seuling's extreme interest in the actor and his film works. In 1989–90, he also published two digest-sized issues of ''Witzend Catalog'', that were only partly editorial content, including unpublished Krenkel art, the other part being original art pieces for sale.