RFI: Anyone heard of a comic artist called 'Benny Wrightson'?

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My web searches are drawing a blank and I'm running out of time.

Bernie Rightson? Benny Reitsen? Any similar-sounding names?

I may even be wrong about his discipline, but I presume (from context) that he works in comics.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 25 June 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"bernie". he co-created swamp thing.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 June 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha - my Googling was obviously more distracted and scattershot than I thought. Thanks, Strongo!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 25 June 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.qusoor.com/rave/13/images/stwein.jpg

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Often written Berni, as I recall. Very influenced by old EC horror artist Graham Ingels.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Now you good folks can chat about Swamp Thing if yr like. So it's not a wasted thread.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

ts: wrightson vs. bissette vs. tottleben vs. veitch vs. all that vertigo garbage that followed

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a tiny influence on one Swamp Thing story! (I'm sure I've said this before here, but what the hell) I was talking to my good friend Alan Moore about Tom Waits, and specifically the song Burma-Shave, and it was out of this conversation that he put a little reference to same at the end of one issue, where there was a car crash.

He ignored my suggestion to give a cameo to great old soul singer Swamp Dogg (who I was on a soul list with for a while, as it happens).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Psst - Bissette & Totleben were the pencil / ink combo for most of Moore's Swamp Thing run; can't take one w/out the other (&, duh, I'll take them both). Tho I kinda miss ... the old Swamp Thing ... and the way ... he talked ... like that kid ... from Malcolm ... in the Middle ...

Looking @ this, one can perhaps maybe see the vague influence Ingels might have had on BW's art. Cough.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 25 June 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

why are you researching wrightson mike? i'm guessing it's work but am curious as to what subtitles would reference him.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 25 June 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

excellent creepiness!

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Friday, 25 June 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a S***n Of The D**d DVD extra - Simon P**g and Edgar W****t go through their flip chart for the film and a 3D arrow on one page looks very rock-like.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 25 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually had a signed Berni Wrightson print once! It was from his illustrated Frankenstein. I was a fan when i was a kid. As I said on an I Love Comics thread, he was the king of the cross-hatch. Some people don't like that kinda thing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 25 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

That's some good influencin', Martin.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 25 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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