Mine for Horror Week: Wrightson's FRANKENSTEIN

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

My contribution to horror week. Nice juicy scans of five of the illustrations Berni Wrightson did for FRANKENSTEIN.
Along with "the Black Cat," this is the apex of his career, for me.

The style Wrightson chose to use was following the approach of Franklin Booth(and led me to studying him), which is
mistakenly called crosshatching, and there is plenty of that too, but what's surprising is that, when you look at it closely,
it's more made up of parallel lines than anything else.
Side personal note: When I was first reading comics with an eye to maybe being an artist myself, this, Dave Sim, and
Bissette/Totleben all hit me at the same time and warped my hand for life. This stuff is dear to my heart. Enjoy.
(And for those interested in seeing the rest, I think it's only fair to leave this link. )




And the greatest single piece of them all. I've nearly gone blind failing to imitate this kind of linework.
(c)Berni Wrightson.

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[brandiweed.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

I bought the full book in college (waaaaaaay back in 1986). Turns out they were teaching Frankenstein as part of Freshman Rhetoric (English). I ended up showing it to my teacher, and while she admitted that we needed the little paperbacks with the academic introduction, she asked me to find her a copy.

And I did.

I wonder if she still has it?