Bernie Wrightson

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GNTLGNT

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swiftdog2.0

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Just heard about this via the dedication of The Walking Dead season finale. Definitely bummed :(

I do have one of the signed numbered Cycle of the Werewolf portfolios, Wolves of The Calla artist edition, and a signed original pencil sketch. Will treasure them even more now. He will definitely be missed.
 

muskrat

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A world without Berni is a stupid world.

I've gotta buncha Berni on my shelf, but now I'm in a Wrightson collecting mood. Gotta own it all. Anybody remember his ultra-mean Batman book called The Cult? Good stuff, gotta get me a new copy of that. Spider-Man Hooky? Warm spot in my heart for that one. His take on the undead Punisher? Gotta check that out. All his stuff for Warren mags like Creepy, Eerie, and Vampi? There's a trade PB I gotta have. So much more. Damn it, when a bloody GOD like this passes we should have a national holiday.

I miss ya, Berni. The world is a little less creepy without you, pard.
 

GNTLGNT

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A world without Berni is a stupid world.

I've gotta buncha Berni on my shelf, but now I'm in a Wrightson collecting mood. Gotta own it all. Anybody remember his ultra-mean Batman book called The Cult? Good stuff, gotta get me a new copy of that. Spider-Man Hooky? Warm spot in my heart for that one. His take on the undead Punisher? Gotta check that out. All his stuff for Warren mags like Creepy, Eerie, and Vampi? There's a trade PB I gotta have. So much more. Damn it, when a bloody GOD like this passes we should have a national holiday.

I miss ya, Berni. The world is a little less creepy without you, pard.
....amen son, amen....
 

muskrat

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I'm gonna keep bumping this thread all year, like people do Prince and Bowie. Berni was every bit as talented as those legends--he deserves it.

If you're cool, you'll go read an excellent Berni interview from the October, 1982 issue of The Comics Journal (available on the TCJ website archives). It was given right before Berni's killer Creepshow was published, and he talks all about the film, and his adaption of King's script. He talks about our King a lot, as a matter of fact--nothing but praise, BTW. Talks about his illustrated Frankenstein, talks about his Marvel and D.C. work, Warren mags...oh, it's great. He sounds like a regular, down to earth cat just like Uncle Stevie. Trust me, you wanna read it...
 

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...someone famous passed away.

It wasn't an overdose. It wasn't an accident.
To some it wasn't even a surprise.
There were no melodies on the radio, nor images on the screen.

What he created was imagination. An art form for a genre enjoyed by millions.

It was strange seeing "In Memory Of" appear as the last frame of the closing credits. I knew the name. I've seen and own his work.
It seems such a shame that those taken away by their own foolishness seem to be celebrated and mourned, yet someone who purportedly led a good and honorable life goes mainly unnoticed.

Oh well. Life goes on.

RIP Bernie Wrightson (1948 - 2017)
http://berniewrightson.com/
 

FlakeNoir

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...someone famous passed away.

It wasn't an overdose. It wasn't an accident.
To some it wasn't even a surprise.
There were no melodies on the radio, nor images on the screen.

What he created was imagination. An art form for a genre enjoyed by millions.

It was strange seeing "In Memory Of" appear as the last frame of the closing credits. I knew the name. I've seen and own his work.
It seems such a shame that those taken away by their own foolishness seem to be celebrated and mourned, yet someone who purportedly led a good and honorable life goes mainly unnoticed.

Oh well. Life goes on.

RIP Bernie Wrightson (1948 - 2017)
http://berniewrightson.com/
I've just moved your post into an existing thread for Bernie.
 

Scratch

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It surprised me when I saw the closing credits and tribute to Burney but I should have known they would. The Walking Dead was first an illustrated series and Tony Moore and others had to have been influenced greatly. It warmed my heart that they would though. It warms it that those here understand how I feel about him. I'm glad I'm not alone in my appreciation.

Then too he was a piece of me with every mechanical man or barely clothed woman I drew while I should have been studying algebra. I had the bare bones of illustration and might have fleshed them out had I not been a bright but utter hedonist wastrel. I took art after a knee injury and general outclassed football showing and did well though I never pursued it in life. I suppose I mourn myself as well. A piece of me dies with him.
 

kingricefan

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I'm gonna keep bumping this thread all year, like people do Prince and Bowie. Berni was every bit as talented as those legends--he deserves it.

If you're cool, you'll go read an excellent Berni interview from the October, 1982 issue of The Comics Journal (available on the TCJ website archives). It was given right before Berni's killer Creepshow was published, and he talks all about the film, and his adaption of King's script. He talks about our King a lot, as a matter of fact--nothing but praise, BTW. Talks about his illustrated Frankenstein, talks about his Marvel and D.C. work, Warren mags...oh, it's great. He sounds like a regular, down to earth cat just like Uncle Stevie. Trust me, you wanna read it...
Bernie was the epitome of the humble artist. He has no peers. He's in a class by himself. You keep on bumping this thread, muskie. Right on.
 

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Anybody remember his ultra-mean Batman book called The Cult?
Yeah, I do. It came out a year after I started collecting Batman comics. I was twelve when the franchise was rebirthed via the Keaton movie and all my friends were beginning to collect. 1990 was the summer I was earning money cutting grass and then buying used comics at the pawn shop (in between a TCBY and a lawyer's office) from a skinny cowpoke named Schmitty. He always wore a holster with a Colt on his hip.
I discovered Stephen King that year and I promptly lost interest in comics. Wrightson was a towering figure in the comic world, though.
 

grin willard

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Yeah, I do. It came out a year after I started collecting Batman comics. I was twelve when the franchise was rebirthed via the Keaton movie and all my friends were beginning to collect. 1990 was the summer I was earning money cutting grass and then buying used comics at the pawn shop (in between a TCBY and a lawyer's office) from a skinny cowpoke named Schmitty. He always wore a holster with a Colt on his hip.
I discovered Stephen King that year and I promptly lost interest in comics. Wrightson was a towering figure in the comic world, though.

It took females to make me lost interest in comics (!) and even then not promptly, but I get your meaning. In my youth, haunting the used comics shops I managed to put together an estimable collection. All DC! No Marvel for me. Including the original Swamp Thing run, and 'House of Secrets 92' (going for upwards of $1000 bucks in excellent condition these days! I remember paying $32. My biggest comics payout then or since), and lost them all in an electrical fire that seemed to center almost completely on my old boyhood room! :) Berni's work was just arcane. He's an original right there with Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, or Pat Boyette. I think the only artist I've seen who could come close to doing him justice was one of my favs, Walt Simonson. Swamp Thing was so perfect for his talents. Like Ditko's Spiderman. I wish he'd done more work in his later years. Cranking it 'till they had to carry him away like good ol' Jim Aparo. Damn. His panels were pieces of art.
 

Doc Creed

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It took females to make me lost interest in comics (!) and even then not promptly, but I get your meaning. In my youth, haunting the used comics shops I managed to put together an estimable collection. All DC! No Marvel for me. Including the original Swamp Thing run, and 'House of Secrets 92' (going for upwards of $1000 bucks in excellent condition these days! I remember paying $32. My biggest comics payout then or since), and lost them all in an electrical fire that seemed to center almost completely on my old boyhood room! :) Berni's work was just arcane. He's an original right there with Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, or Pat Boyette. I think the only artist I've seen who could come close to doing him justice was one of my favs, Walt Simonson. Swamp Thing was so perfect for his talents. Like Ditko's Spiderman. I wish he'd done more work in his later years. Cranking it 'till they had to carry him away like good ol' Jim Aparo. Damn. His panels were pieces of art.
Lol...I was a late bloomer. I didn't go on a "proper date" until I was sixteen. Yeah, I had friends that loved Swamp Thing. It just didn't frost my flakes, lol.