Additional color pieces are also featured (such as the gorgeous ink-and-watercolor cover paintings for DC's "House of Mystery" paperbacks). Of course, the book is brimming with original line art from Swamp Thing to the Warren years and beyond, as well as numerous sketches and unpublished work. Works presented in their entirety include Purple Pictography, The Monsters Color-the-Creature Book (with two plates colored by Wrightson), The Edgar Allen Poe Portfolio (except "The Telltale Heart", shown as a full-page sketch), The Horror and Fantasy Poster Series, The Muck Monster (original B&W line art version), and The Dinosaur print series (in B&W, with color close-ups). This is accompanied by many, many illustrations in both B&W and color-including complete works, in some cases. Each chapter begins with a brief narrative by Zavisa, followed by Wrightson's own words, compiled from extensive interview sessions. Essentially a collaboration between writer/publisher Christopher Zavisa and artist Berni Wrightson, this book breaks down Wrightson's career by chronology and project-from his beginnings as a young person in Baltimore to his work as a member of The Studio, an artistic space shared with Kaluta, Jones, and Windsor-Smith in New York City from 1976 to ’78.
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