R.I.P. Bernie Wrightson
Mar 19, 2017 13:13:40 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 19, 2017 13:13:40 GMT -5
What I had to say on Facebook.
R. I. P. Bernie Wrightson.
I saw this late last night but on the heels of losing Chuck Berry I wanted to sleep and think about Bernie Wrighson without the two coloring each other.
When I first started reading comics Bernie Wrightson was still one of the Young Turks who were turning the industry on its ear along with Mike Kaluta, Jeff Jones, Alan Weiss and others.
I didn't read a lot of Bernie's work at that time because I wasn't a horror fan. So I slowly found out about him. I found Swamp Thing and I found the cover and the short stories in the "Mystery" books. As I grew and read I found his influences in Ghastly Graham Ingels. I read interviews with Bernie and his contemporaries...and what comes from them is that he was a very humble and likeable man about whom nobody said a bad word.
Clearly his magnum opus was his Frankenstein. To my mind, there is no question that Bernie gave us the greatest version of Frankenstein ever. The love and care and time he lavished on Shelley's seminal creation was the culmination of a career spent giving us thrills and chills.
Thank you, Bernie for all the hours of fun. Of horrible monsters and frogs on crutches. Of shambling creatures, of terrifying jack o'lanterns and of hosts who were as interesting as the stories they told.
R. I. P. Bernie Wrightson.
I saw this late last night but on the heels of losing Chuck Berry I wanted to sleep and think about Bernie Wrighson without the two coloring each other.
When I first started reading comics Bernie Wrightson was still one of the Young Turks who were turning the industry on its ear along with Mike Kaluta, Jeff Jones, Alan Weiss and others.
I didn't read a lot of Bernie's work at that time because I wasn't a horror fan. So I slowly found out about him. I found Swamp Thing and I found the cover and the short stories in the "Mystery" books. As I grew and read I found his influences in Ghastly Graham Ingels. I read interviews with Bernie and his contemporaries...and what comes from them is that he was a very humble and likeable man about whom nobody said a bad word.
Clearly his magnum opus was his Frankenstein. To my mind, there is no question that Bernie gave us the greatest version of Frankenstein ever. The love and care and time he lavished on Shelley's seminal creation was the culmination of a career spent giving us thrills and chills.
Thank you, Bernie for all the hours of fun. Of horrible monsters and frogs on crutches. Of shambling creatures, of terrifying jack o'lanterns and of hosts who were as interesting as the stories they told.
