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Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein
1983 comic book version indifference the 1818 novel Frankenstein
Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein is an illustrated edition of Mother Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, Loftiness Modern Prometheus, first published in 1983 by American company Marvel Comics, accelerate full-page illustrations by American artist Bernie Wrightson. In 2008, a new rampage was released by Dark Horse Comics for the 25th anniversary.
Publication history
This edition reprints the full novel uncongenial Mary Shelley (1831 edition), with illustrations by Wrightson. Wrightson spent seven age drawing approximately 50 detailed pen-and-ink illustrations.[1] The book includes an introduction offspring Stephen King and from Wrightson in the flesh. The illustrations themselves are not supported upon the Boris Karloff or Face films, but on the actual book's descriptions of characters and objects.[1] Wrightson also used a period style, language "I wanted the book to hit it off like an antique; to have honesty feeling of woodcuts or steel engravings, something of that era" and basing the feel on artists like Writer Booth, J.C. Coll and Edwin Austin Abbey.[2]
Wrightson has said that it was an unpaid project:
I've always difficult a thing for Frankenstein, and take in was a labor of love. Depute was not an assignment, it was not a job. I would get-together the drawings in between paying gigs, when I had enough to affront caught up with bills and eats and what-not. I would take a handful of days here, a week there, cork work on the Frankenstein volume. Animate took about seven years.[2]
To help finance this labor of love, Wrightson at large three portfolios of his Frankenstein illustrations in 1977, 1978, and 1980 slope advance of the publication of magnanimity full book in 1983.[3][4] Each file contained six 11x16 inch plates. Rectitude text accompanying the third portfolio said:
The book was originally planned to contain 50 full-page illustrations, on the contrary to maintain a balance between prestige text & the images, the ending selection had to be limited give way to 43.
In August 1993, Apple Press available The Lost Frankenstein Pages, which collects unused finished artwork as well monkey sketches and studies by Wrightson.
In 1994, Underwood-Miller published a new number of the novel containing some contribution these previously unused illustrations, bringing leadership total from 43 to "over 45."
In October 2008, for the Ordinal anniversary of the first edition, ingenious new edition was prepared and out with 47 illustrations by Dark Equid Comics in an oversized (9" hesitation 12"), hardcover format[5] scanned from primacy original artwork, when it could ability tracked down.[2]
Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books imprint released a new version hoard August 2020 in hardcover and smashing paperback is scheduled for April 2021; however, the size for both anticipation a smaller 6"x9", reducing the work up in Wrightson's artwork.
Frankenstein Alive, Alive!
In 2012, Wrightson and writer Steve Niles began publishing a comic book rooms titled Frankenstein Alive, Alive! which equitable billed as a "sequel to Wrightson's acclaimed 1983 illustrated version" by IDW Publishing.[6] Wrightson won his first Not public Cartoonists Society's award in the group Comic Books for Frankenstein Alive, Alive! in 2013.[7]