RIP Bernie Wrightson 0

[alxjhnsn]

RIP Bernie Wrightson

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From Liz:

Austin, TX - 3-18-2017

 

Legendary comic book artist and illustrator Bernie Wrightson has lost his long battle with brain cancer. He is survived by his wife Liz, sons John and Jeffrey, stepson Thomas, and countless friends and fans. We will have a celebration of life for him later this year. His full obituary can be found here: www.berniewrightson.com 

 

Thank you for the many years of love and support! 

[mtlevy1]

This sucks - We are starting to lose the second wave of great comic artists - we have lost two of the Studio artists already.

He left quite a great legacy of work - met him briefly at a few cons - very gracious gentleman.

Condolences to the family

Mark

[SquareChaos]

Oh no, I clicked this hoping it was just a bad choice of title to talk about his retirement.

So sorry to hear this, he'll always be a legend. I hope his family and loved ones find peace.

[DeadpoolJr.]

This is terrible news. I really wanted to meet him, and to hear that such a nice guy like him passed so soon is shocking.

 

RIP Mr. Wrightson you'll always be one of the greats.

[Unca Ben]

R.I.P.  truly one of the greats.  

[BCarter27]

My wife and I got to meet him at a convention in White Plains in the early 2000s. Just last week, we were telling a fellow collector about walking away from that meeting exclaming, "Wow! Berni Wrightson is just so... nice!"

His Frankenstein cover poster hung in my room as a teenager and into college. So I brought it along to have him sign it that day.

These prints from The Stand hang in our living room--

He is my wife's absolute favorite artist. His art and creativity was such a huge influence on us both.

Our condolences go out to his family.

 

Edited March 19, 2017 by BCarter27

[wurstisart]

RIP. Thank you for all he gave to us.

i have great memories of meeting him at the Baltimore Comic Convention.

very sad.

[NelsonAI]

Condolences to the entire Wrightson family and all their friends. 

One of the artists on my Mt. Rushmore.  

 

[Timely]

A truly sad day in the world of art & comics. There seemed to be an underlying genius in everything he drew!

[chrisco37]

RIP Mr. Wrightson.  One of the true legends. 

 

 

[Matches_Malone]

Truly Sad. He will be missed. 

[tth2]

RIP.  One of the truly unique artists of comic-dom.

[spider9698]

Met him a few times over the years.   Always a gentleman.   He will be missed.

Rest in Peace

[batman_fan]

Very sad news ...

[Weird Paper]

Bernie was and will remain one of my all-time favorites. It certainly doesn't hurt his legacy that he was such a nice and approachable person. Much like another of my art heroes, Ralph Steadman, his furious and frightening art belied a gentle soul.

My favorite of a handful of encounters with Bernie was a few years ago -- 2013, I believe -- at Comicpalooza. Artists' Alley was somewhat quite and I struck up a conversation with Bernie while nobody was in line at his table. I asked him what I always thought about asking him, but had not up to that point. The whole thing with the studio guys... four larger-than-life rock stars who were legends in their own times... begged the comparison to the Beatles. So, I asked him if the four of them had ever considered that and, if so, who was whom? His response was that they really didn't like the comparison because nobody wanted to be Ringo.

I respect that, but I still have my idea of who would be whom. Jeffrey Catherine would certainly have been George -- that was the clearest to me. But Bernie... I think Bernie was John... soft-spoken, approachable, brilliant. And like John, he's gone. Too early.

RIP, Bernie. You were one of my art heroes for the past 45 years, and you still will be for the next 45 years.

[suspense39]

The Comics journal posted this link to a Wrightson interview

http://www.tcj.com/category/blog/