Bernie Wrightson (1948–2017)
Author of Creepshow
About the Author
Bernard Albert Wrightson was born in Dundalk, Maryland on October 27, 1948. He learned comic book art from studying comics and from correspondence courses. His first published work, The Man Who Murdered Himself, appeared in House of Mystery, from DC, in 1969. He helped create the popular DC Comics show more character Swamp Thing, who first appeared in an issue of House of Secrets in 1971. Swamp Thing was promoted to his own series in 1972. In 1974, Wrightson began working at Warren Publishing, where his work, including original material and adaptations of stories by Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, appeared in Creepy and Eerie magazines. In 1983, he adapted Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for Marvel Comics. He also contributed character designs for films, including creatures, aliens and ghouls for The Mist, Galaxy Quest, and the original Ghostbusters. He died from brain cancer on March 18, 2017 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
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.
Image credit: Centipede Press (publisher)
Series
Works by Bernie Wrightson
Badtime stories 6 copies
Comic Book Profiles #2 1998 3 copies
Apparitions Portfolio. 1978 3 copies
Creepy 13 3 copies
Chamber of Darkness #7 3 copies
House of Mystery # 211 3 copies
Batman: Nevermore # 5 2 copies
Batman: Nevermore # 4 2 copies
Creepy (Warren Magazine) #113 2 copies
Creatures on the Loose #10 1971 2 copies
House of Secrets #096 — Cover artist — 2 copies
House of Secrets #135 — Cover artist — 2 copies
Secrets of Haunted House # 44 2 copies
City of others # 1 2 copies
City of others # 2 2 copies
City of others # 3 2 copies
City of others # 4 2 copies
Water Music. Soft Cover 2006 1 copy
ACBA Sketchbook. 1975 1 copy
House of Secrets #103 (DC Comics) 1972 — Cover artist — 1 copy
House of Secrets #106 (DC Comics) 1973 — Cover artist — 1 copy
House of Secrets #093 (DC Comics) — Cover artist — 1 copy
Swamp Thing #4 Il rito della primavera — Illustrator — 1 copy
House of Secrets #100 (DC Comics) 1972 — Cover artist — 1 copy
Secrets of Haunted House # 05 — Artist — 1 copy
The Studio. Softcover 1 copy
Presque humains 1 copy
Scream Door #1 1 copy
Abyss Portfolio 1 copy
Abyss #1 Fanzine 1970 1 copy
Nightfall! 1 copy
Enfer blanc. 3. evasion (.) — Author — 1 copy
Enfer blanc. 2. capture (.) — Author — 1 copy
Super Jock (Paperback) 1970 1 copy
Spa Fon #4 1968 1 copy
Gosh Wow! #3 (1969) 1 copy
The Ghoul 1 copy
The Stand 1 copy
Годината на върколака 1 copy
Toe Tags #1 (DC Comics) 2005 1 copy
Toe Tags #6 (DC Comics) 2005 1 copy
Kull: The Skull Of Silence 1 copy
Toe Tags #5 (DC Comics) 2005 1 copy
Toe Tags #4 (DC Comics) 2005 1 copy
Toe Tags #3 (DC Comics) 2005 1 copy
Toe Tags #2 (DC Comics) 2005 1 copy
City of Others TPB 2008 1 copy
Creepy Archives vol. 15 1 copy
Graphic Collectables 1998 1 copy
Associated Works
The Stephen King Companion: Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror (2015) — Contributor, some editions — 575 copies
House of Mystery # 217 — Cover artist — 4 copies
House of Mystery Vol. 2 # 01 — Cover artist, some editions — 4 copies
House of Secrets #094 (DC Comics) — Cover artist — 3 copies
R.B.C.C. (The Rocket's Blast and the Comic Collector) — Cover artist — 3 copies
House of Secrets #107 (DC Comics) — Cover artist — 2 copies
The Spectre #9 (DC) 1968 — Illustrator — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Wrightson, Bernie
- Legal name
- Wrightson, Bernie
- Other names
- Wrightson, Berni
Master of the Macabre - Birthdate
- 1948-10-27
- Date of death
- 2017-03-18
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Dundalk, Maryland, USA
- Place of death
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Places of residence
- California, USA
- Education
- self taught
Correspondence courses - Occupations
- fantasy artist
illustrator
inker
painter - Organizations
- The Studio (1975)
- Awards and honors
- Shazam Award (1972, for Best Penciller, Dramatic Division, for Swamp Thing)
Shazam Award (1972, Best Individual Story [Dramatic] for Swamp Thing #1, with Len Wein)
Shazam Award (1973, for Best Penciller, Dramatic Division, for Swamp Thing)
Shazam Award (1973, Best Inker for Swamp Thing)
Shazam Award (1974, Best Penciller, Dramatic Division)
H.P. Lovecraft Award (2007, at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon) - Short biography
- Co-Creator of the Swamp Thing with Len Wein.
Creator of Captain Sternn - also used in the Animated film "Heavy Metal". Illustrated Mary Shelly's Frankenstein story which is considered one of the most beautifully detailed works of the 20th century. Has illustrated several books by Stephen King. Contributed to many comic book covers and interiors of the Bronze age such as House of Secrets, House of Mystery, Plop! for Marvel Comics Group and DC Comics.
Contributed to numerous movies such as Ghost Busters, Creepshow, the Myst, among others. Married with two sons. - Disambiguation notice
- 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.
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Reviews
Crítica | Monstro do Pântano: Amor e Morte: https://www.planocritico.com/critica-a-saga-do-monstro-do-pantano-livro-2-monstr...
It was retro three decades ago, and it’s barely aged a day; a ghoulishly good time when paired with its film counterpart.
Like a lot of people, I first got acquainted with Swamp Thing in the 80s when the older stuff was hard to find. Catching up with it now, it seems like something from way more than 10 years earlier, old-fashioned in both good and bad ways. The good: Wein had a solid grasp of several pulp genres and hit on a premise that could be adapted to any of them, while also being perfect for morbid young people who felt like monsters, and Wrightson's art (though it's sometimes a little clumsier than I expected—he was pretty young) has Gothic style to spare and also a great cartoony expressiveness that recalls some of the EC greats. The bad: Wein writes in a time-honored tradition of endless bombastic narration that's constantly telling you what you're looking at, and the recurring human characters are pretty forgettable. Although it would take a while for them to figure out what to make the story about besides a series of one-off monster encounters, Swamp Thing at this point is already obviously a great idea and you can see all kinds of weird notions being thrown on the wall to see what sticks.
For more thoughts, here's a blog post: https://alibi-shop.dreamwidth.org/9945.html… (more)
For more thoughts, here's a blog post: https://alibi-shop.dreamwidth.org/9945.html… (more)
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