'Oh, Wicked Wanda!' continues to appeal to a broad range of people. New readers are often surprised by their instant liking to OWW, while many old readers harbor a special nostalgia for the comic. Part of this stems from the exceptional and often titillating artwork of Ron Embleton, who painstakingly created a different oil painting for each page of the OWW strip. Embleton mingled the saucy characters in OWW with caricatures of famous figures, tributes to other cartoon icons, and backgrounds full of story-driven detail and bizarre sexual iconography.