900 seconds with the Master of The Macabre - A Bernie Wrightson Interview
It is April 1989 and a couple of 24-year-old fanzine editors are expecting to interview the Master of Macabre, a guest of the 5 th edition of the International comics festival in Montreal. Waiting impatiently in a small room to meet the legendary artist, they survey their notes and check their watches nervously. It is way past 9pm, and the expo closes at 10pm. It seems more and more likely that they will miss their opportunity to sit with the man who breathed life into the Swamp Thing and inspired myriads of twisted nightmares. Their hearts are racing, sweat starting to glisten on their brows. Suddenly, the door opens… Berni Wrightson was born Bernard Albert Wrightson in Dundalk, Maryland a few days before Halloween on October 27 th 1948. Ink ran through his veins as he devoured EC comics admiring the works of Frank Frazetta . Jack Davis and Graham ‘’Ghastly’’ Ingels , just to name a few, and learning to draw by watching John Gnagy on TV. After a shor...