Bernie’s first published work was a letters page illustration for Warren Publishing’s Creepy #9, 1965, foreshadowing his future. From Davis, he learned more techniques as well as humor. That is where he first learned inking technique. “I’m more of a combination of Ingels and Davis than anyone else…sometimes deliberately draw in the style of Graham Ingels,” he said in 1975. Wrightson pored over the work of his favorite artists (and top inkers) like Graham Ingels and Jack Davis. (He went by “Berni” for years due to an olympic swimmer having the same name, then changed it back.) Bernie Wrightson has long been nicknamed “Master Of The Macabre.” But for the Inkwell Awards and ink artists, it should be “Master Of The Brush And Pen.” Few if any of his era exemplify that moniker more.īorn on October 27, 1948, Wrightson said, “I wish my mother could have waited until Halloween that would have been perfect.” He credits a few different things for his love of the macabre and unique vision: growing up next to a cemetery, three visits from a headless ghost at age four, Catholic school, EC horror comics and old monster movies.
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