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jlroberson (jlroberson) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-13 05:06:00

Current location:	Seattle
Current mood:	calm
Current music:	Thom Yorke/UNKLE, "Rabbit In Your Headlights"
Entry tags:	char: dr victor frankenstein, char: frankenstein's monster, creator: berni wrightson, creator: mary wollstonecraft shelley, series: horror week

Mine for Horror Week: Wrightson's FRANKENSTEIN
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.

	parsimonia 2009-09-13 03:19 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. That is amazing. I'm trying to remember what scene that first scan is depicting. Is the woman being hanged Justine? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-09-14 12:34 am UTC (link)
	Yep, that's her hanging for William's death, which the monster committed. (Reply to this) (Parent)