![]() ![]() Comics Work The cover model for this issue was Louise Jones, (later Simonson.) Wrightson announced his retirement in January of 2017, and passed away at his home in Austin Texas on March 18th, 2017 after a long battle with brain cancer. Wrightson entered comics fandom while he was still a teenager, becoming fast friends with Jeff Jones and Mike Kaluta when they attended NYC Comic Con, ostensibly because Frank Frazetta was attending. ![]() He started drawing at an early age, accordingly monsters, zombies, what have you, and while he is mostly self taught, he did take the illustration correspondence course that was founded by Albert Dorne, Robert Fawcett and Norman Rockwell. Wrightson recollects hiding his ECs from his mother under his mattress, and reading them until their covers fell off. While he grew up in a household where even his parents read comics, his secret love was the EC horror titles that were then being reprinted when he was a child. ![]() Personal Life From Bernie Wrightson: A Look Back 1979īernard "Bernie" Wrightson was born in Baltimore Maryland in 1948. ![]()
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