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Wrightson began spelling his name "Berni" in his professional work to distinguish himself from an Olympic diver named Bernie Wrightson, [9] but later restored the final "e" to his name.
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.
Apr 3, 2017 · Bernie Wrightson was a legendary horror comics artist. He is perhaps best known as the co-creator of Swamp Thing. Wrightson passed away on March 18, 2017 of brain cancer at the age of 68.
- Joe Blackmon
Mar 21, 2017 · Wrightson was a product of the second generation of comics fandom and began contributing to fanzines in the late 1960s, before breaking into the comics industry in 1969, with work for Web of Horror and DC’s Showcase, including two issues of the dark fantasy strip “Nightmaster”.
His first name was shortened to Bernie, which he initially wrote as Berni to avoid confusion with the Olympic diver Bernie Wrightson (1944). He got interested in art at the age of 12, but has claimed that he wasn't an avid comic book reader as a child.
Mar 25, 2017 · Last year, during a tour of his extensive library of art and pop culture memorabilia at Bleak House, Del Toro instantly named Wrightson’s Frankenstein as the pieces in his catalog that were...
Along with Mike Kaluta, Bernie began as a somewhat crude (if obviously talented) artist empowered with an intense enthusiasm for the art form, and he flowered at DC to become an exceptional world-class artist of enormous capability.
