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"[Krigstein's] second EC job, 'The Flying Machine' [...], was a bona fide comics classic, a rare instance where the artist's style and script were in perfect harmony. Original author Ray Bradbury thought so, too. In a letter [...] Bradbury wrote: '"The Flying Machine" is the finest single piece of art-drawing I've seen in years. Beautiful work: I was so touched and pleased by the concern for detail.'"
-- S.C. Ringgenberg, Master Race: And Other Stories Illustrated by Bernard Krigstein (Fantagraphics, 2018), 211

( 'But there are times when one must lose a little beauty' )

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Another EC classic illustrated by Bernie Krigstein.

( 'Don't you remember anything?' )

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"Krigstein's formal qualities as a storyteller—not the story's subject matter—make 'Master Race' a tour de force. He encapsulates the decade of Nazi terror powerfully but with restraint, never slipping into the Grand Guignol that made EC notorious. The two tiers of wordless staccato panels that climax the story have become justly famous among the comics literate. They have often been described as 'cinematic,' a phrase thoroughly inadequate to the achievement: Krigstein condenses and distends time itself."
--Art Spiegelman, "Ballbuster: Bernard Krigstein's Life Between the Panels," The New Yorker, July 14, 2002

Warning for anti-Semitism.

( 'Run... as you ran from Belsen, Carl!' )

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Entries tagged with creator: bernie krigstein

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