![]() ![]() Each portfolio contained six 11x16 inch plates. To help fund this labor of love, Wrightson released three portfolios of his Frankenstein illustrations in 1977, 1978, and 1980 in advance of the publication of the full book in 1983. I would take three days here, a week there, to work on the Frankenstein volume. I would do the drawings in between paying gigs, when I had enough to be caught up with bills and groceries and what-not. It was not an assignment, it was not a job. ![]() I've always had a thing for Frankenstein, and it was a labor of love. Wrightson has said that it was an unpaid project: Wrightson also used a period style, saying "I wanted the book to look like an antique to have the feeling of woodcuts or steel engravings, something of that era" and basing the feel on artists like Franklin Booth, J.C. The illustrations themselves are not based upon the Boris Karloff or Lee films, but on the actual book's descriptions of characters and objects. ![]() The book includes an introduction by Stephen King and from Wrightson himself. Wrightson spent seven years drawing approximately 50 detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. This edition reprints the full novel by Mary Shelley (1831 edition), with illustrations by Wrightson. In 2008, a new edition was released by Dark Horse Comics for the 25th anniversary. Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein is an illustrated edition of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1983 by American company Marvel Comics, with full-page illustrations by Bernie Wrightson. ![]()
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