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The book presents scans of the original artwork from the studio archives. Then at the end of the 1970s, the cocreator of swamp thing began working on a group of detailed pen and ink illustrations that were inspired. Mar 24, 2017 bernie wrightson, a widely admired comic book artist who was known for his lush, intricate, otherworldly visions of horror and who was one of the creators of the popular dc comics character swamp. Oct 30, 2017 wrightsons extensive design work for the gang of seven animation studio, while known, has never been documented until now with the creation of this new indepth monograph that utilizes the. From each stroke of the pen or paintbrush, you know that something special is being put on the page to make our eyes widen in wonder. Bernie wrightson dark horse, 2011 is a newly released hardcover collection of the works of comic book artist bernie wrightson that appeared in creepy and eerie.
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Master of the macabre was published by pacific comics and eclipse comics in 19831984. Bernie wrightson was the illustrator for comic books for many years and even did the artwork for a color the monster book back in the seventies. Bernie wrightson, a widely admired comic book artist who was known for his lush, intricate, otherworldly visions of horror and who was one of the creators of the popular dc comics character swamp thing, died on march 18 in austin, tex. Bernie wrightsons original endpaper illustration for the marvel comics adaptation of frankenstein will be offered for sale at heritage auctions next month. Bernie wrightson epitomizes the new blood that arrived at dc in the late 60s and theneditorial director carmine infantinos ability to.
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Wrightson spent seven years drawing approximately 50 penandink illustrations to accompany an edition of mary shelleys novel frankenstein, which the. His impressive list of work includes the cocreation of swamp thing, illustrating mary shellys frankenstein, and, of course, working on dozens of comic book titles. The master of comic book drawing,illustration and art bernie wrightson worldwide acclaim and awards for his art bernard albert bernie wrightson born october baltimore, maryland is an. Bernie wrightson artist illustrator, including frankenstein poster lithograph print at the illustration art gallery. He is credited among other contemporary writers as bringing horror comics back to prominence. Bernie wrightson s most popular book is frankenstein.
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