# R.I.P. Bernie Wrightson **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2017, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535 "2017-03-19T08:39:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/1 "2017-03-19T08:39:45Z")
Bernie Wrightson 1948 - March 19, 2017. Bernie was a Baltimorean, like Charles Addams and Edgar Allen Poe; given his predilection for horror, he likely hung out in a lot of the same graveyards as them. 2017 is shaping up to be for great cartoonists what 2016 was for musicians. Wrightson drew a lot of horror comics, mostly for Warren and DC; Swamp Thing was his co-creation. Old-school inkers of the Frank Giacoia variety rsented him for his laboriously detailed fiishes. His masterpiece was probably an illlustrated Frankenstein book he did for Marvel back in 1983; it took him seven years to draw 50 full-page illustrations for the project. He shared a studio with three other first-rate comics artists: Jeff Jones, Mike Kaluta and Barry Windsor-Smith. They had a shared appreciation for the Victorian Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and were as influential in their circles (comic book and magazine illustrators of the 1970s and 80s) as the PRB’s Dante Gabriel Rosetti was in his. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/2 "2017-03-19T09:02:49Z")
He had an old-fashioned style that reminded me of the etchings of Gustave Doré. Only a little more grotesquely cinematic. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/3 "2017-03-19T15:53:26Z")
His style was heavy and thick … lots of ink per square inch … and remarkably grisly, but also with an element of humor, sometimes hidden and sometimes completely overt. He also wrote pretty well. Always a shame to lose a creator. (Cue “Lament for the Makers.”) ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/4 "2017-03-19T16:04:19Z")
_Batman: The Cult_ is one of my favorite comic book stories of all time, and Bernie’s art is a large part of that. RIP Bernie. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/5 "2017-03-19T17:29:44Z")
I got the hardbound version of _Frankenstein_ with his illustrations for Christmas a few years back. Some amazing [work](http://www.theouthousers.com/images/jce/sdsichero/2017/03/berniewrightsonfrankensteincvr.jpg) in there. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/6 "2017-03-19T17:34:30Z")
I consider Wrightson’s work treasures. I have his run on Swamp Thing, as well as as Creepshow, the illustrated version of Stephen King’s movie. I also have some 70’s issues of Heavy Metal with his work. The man could make a tree look scary. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/7 "2017-03-19T17:51:42Z")
Didn’t even know who he was but I recognized some of his images. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/8 "2017-03-19T17:52:33Z")
Bad week for artists. Turning into another bad year for iconic personages. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/9 "2017-03-19T18:40:39Z")
I just saw the Frankenstein book a few weeks ago, I was always a fan of his, but that blew me away with the back story of how long he spent doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/10 "2017-03-20T15:09:13Z")
I dislike anything horror-ish, but I’ve always loved Wrightson’s work. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/11 "2017-03-20T15:24:43Z")
Very sad. Wrightson was one of my all-time favorite artists. I was a huge “Swamp Thing” fan, and loved his work in the Warren magazines. “Frankenstein” took his work to a whole new level. At last year’s Comic Con, one of the vendors had a few of the originals from that book. They blew me away ! I found myself frozen, just staring at them. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bernie-wrightson/782535/12 "2017-03-21T14:47:12Z")
_State your name for the record._ I am Hanover Fiste. _… and you know the defendent, Captain Sternn?_ Yes, I know Captain Sternn, and never did there live a kinder, more generous man. He’s an overflowing cup, filled with the very cream of human goodness. In all of the time that I’ve known him, he’s never done anything immoral… Unless, maybe the pre-schooler’s prostitute ring! … and he’s never done anything illegal … Unless you count _all the times_ he sold dope - disguised as a nun! … he’s always been a good, law-abiding citizen … AWWW! GIMME A BREAK! … of the Federation, and … SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!!! …a … a community-conscious individual… STERNN! He’s nothin’ but a low-down, double-dealin’, back-stabbin’, larcenist perverted worm! Hangin’s too good for 'im! Burnin’s too good for 'im! He needs to be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive! This far down the thread, and not one mention of [Captain Sternn and Hanover Fiste?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D13KjR_Xvc)