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Bernie "Berni" Wrightson (born October 27 , 1948 , Baltimore, Maryland , USA ) is an American Artist known for his Horror Illustration s and Comic Books . He received training in art from reading comics, partiocularly those of EC , as well as through a Correspondence Course . In 1966, Wrightson began working for '' The Baltimore Sun '' newspaper as an Illustrator . The following year, after meeting artist Frank Frazetta at a comic-book Convention in New York City , he was inspired to produce his own stories. In 1968, he showed copies of his Sequential Art to DC Comics editor Dick Giordano and was given a freelance assignment. Wrightson began spelling his name "Berni" in his professional work to distinguish himself from an Olympic Diver named Bernie Wrightson, but later restored the final E to his name. His first professional comic work appeared in '' House Of Mystery '' #179 in 1968. He continued to work on a variety of mystery and anthology titles for both DC and its principal rival, Marvel Comics . In 1971, with writer Len Wein , Wrightson co-created the muck creature Swamp Thing for DC. By 1974. he had left DC to work at Warren Publishing , for whose black-and-white Horror -comics mgazines he produced a series of original work as well as adaptations of stories by H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe . Though he continued to produce sequential art, he also began producing artwork for numerous posters, prints, calendars, and even coloring books. He drew the poster for the Film '' Creepshow '', as well as album covers for a number of bands including Meatloaf . He has also contributed illustrations for writer Stephen King 's werewolf story " Cycle Of The Werewolf ". Wrightson spent seven years drawing approximately 50 detailed pen-and-ink illustrations to accompany an edition of Mary Shelley 's novel '' Frankenstein ''. He did production design for the characters the Reavers in the 2005 film '' Serenity '' {Link without Title} . QUOTES Bernie Wrightson on editing the magazine ''Web of Horror'' "That was done by a guy named Richard Sproul out in Long Island . His company, Major Magazines, put out '' Cracked '' magazine.... A fellow named Terry Bisson tracked down me, Mike Kaluta , and Jeff Jones , and presented us with a proposal to do this black-and-white horror magazine in competition with ''Creepy''. ...Bisson (who was writing blurb copy for Romance magazines when I first met him) left after the third issue under very mysterious circumstances — and the running of the whole magazine, for some reason, fell into [writer-artist Bruce Jones ' and my laps (and I can't remember if Terry said, 'Here, you guys take over the editorial', or if we volunteered). Bruce and I put together the whole fourth issue, which had already been assigned. We were working at home! We had to take this incredibly long trip to get Major Magazines — Bruce lived in Flushing at the time and from there we took a train to the end of the line and from there we had to take two buses and then walk about 10 blocks to get to the office! It was an all-day thing and we finally get out to the office.... and the place was empty. All the desks, all the filing cabinets, everything, was gone! ... [W]e never learned where the guy went and what happened to him. We had all this stuff for the fourth issue and we were planning issues five and six — Bruce and I were going to take over the magazine and make it like Creepy or EC Comics — but they just left! ... Whatever had been turned in already, they took with them. I don't think anybody got paid for anything — and Bruce and I took a bath on it". SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Comics
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AWARDS Wrightson won the Shazam Award for Best Penciller (Dramatic Division) in 1972 and 1973 for Swamp Thing , the Shazam Award for Best Individual Story (Dramatic) in 1972 for Swamp Thing #1 (with Len Wein ). He has received additional nominations, including for the Shazam Award for Best Inker in 1973 for ''Swamp Thing'', as well as that year's Shazam for Best Individual Story, for "A Clockwork Horror" in ''Swamp Thing'' #6 (with Len Wein). He won the Shazam Award for Best Penciller (Dramatic Division) in 1974. REFERENCES |
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