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Bernie Wrightson, a comic book industry vet and celebrated illustrator, died on March 18. The artist was vastly influential for generations of illustrators, cited for his elaborate line work and absorbing detail. Wrightson was legend in the horror genre, in particular, mixing both the beautiful and the unsettling in his pen and brush work. Shown are images from his revered Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein series, adapting the classic Mary Shelley novel.

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Illustrator Chris Van Allsburg once said that he spent only a small percentage of his working time making creative choices. The vast majority of his time was spent on the manual labor of implementing those choices. He would spend days and days painstakingly drawing individual blades of grass and leaves. Artist Bernie Wrightson seemed to work the same way. He spent a great deal of time mechanically implementing his initial artistic decisions: (In my view, this often resulted in a mountain of…

I was introduced to Bernie Wrightson's work back in the 70's reading SWAMPTHING. I wish I still had those comics. What attracted me to Wrightson's work was the same thing that attracted me to Mike Ploogs work. In my mind they were the masters of the macabre as far as comic books were concerned (I am sure some one out there will want to contest who was the greatest at horror comics, but I stand by Wrightson).Wrightson's work had a big affect on me, although I don't think it is evident in my…

Берни Райтсон (Bernie Wrightson) начал работу над произведением Мэри Шелли на добровольном начале и это была работа для души. Художник вспоминает, что возвращался к неприкаянному чудовищу всякий раз, когда у него выпадала свободная минутка. Самым сложным моментом была сама техника иллюстраций –…

Just found out Berni is finally back with the third issue of Frankenstein Alive Alive (in about a month, they say). I get the feel'n Frank an Berni go way back

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