Background
Of Paraguayan-Australian origins, Wood spent his childhood between Paraguay and Argentina with his mother, before leaving to do various jobs, such as dishwasher, truck driver, salesman, wood chopper, journalist and factory worker in those two countries as well as in Brazil.
Career
He is mostly known for his classical work in Argentine comics and his later work in European comics. Anne Whitehead"s 1997 book on New Australia, Paradise Mislaid, provides a chapter on Robin Wood"s childhood with his extended Paraguayan-Australian family. Wood settled in Buenos Aires while working as a correspondent for Argentine newspaper El Territorio, and did a series of unqualified jobs before he started writing scripts for popular comic book publishing company Columba.