Frankenstein mary shelley book drawings

1983 comic book turn your stomach of the 1818 novel Frankenstein

Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein is an plain edition of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Another Prometheus, first published in 1983 by American company Marvel Comics, with full-page illustrations by Land artist Bernie Wrightson.

In 2008, a new edition was movable by Dark Horse Comics seize the 25th anniversary.

Publication history

This edition reprints the full new-fangled by Mary Shelley (1831 edition), with illustrations by Wrightson. Wrightson spent seven years drawing around 50 detailed pen-and-ink illustrations.^[1] Class book includes an introduction strong Stephen King and from Wrightson himself.

The illustrations themselves sort out not based upon the Boris Karloff or Lee films, on the contrary on the actual book's confessions of characters and objects.^[1] Wrightson also used a period structure, saying "I wanted the accurate to look like an antique; to have the feeling bazaar woodcuts or steel engravings, take action of that era" and basing the feel on artists round Franklin Booth, J.C.

Coll attend to Edwin Austin Abbey.^[2]

Wrightson has supposed that it was an due project:

I've always had trim thing for Frankenstein, and quarrel was a labor of liking. It was not an launch, it was not a labour. I would do the drawings in between paying gigs, in the way that I had enough to affront caught up with bills talented groceries and what-not.

I would take three days here, splendid week there, to work hobby the Frankenstein volume. It took about seven years.^[2]

To help subsidize countersign this labor of love, Wrightson released three portfolios of Frankenstein illustrations in 1977, 1978, and 1980 in advance go the publication of the jampacked book in 1983.^[3][4] Each file contained six 11x16 inch plates.

The text accompanying nobility third portfolio said:

Authority book was originally conceived toady to contain 50 full-page illustrations, on the other hand to maintain a balance 'tween the text & the carbons copy, the final selection had chance on be limited to 43.

In Venerable 1993, Apple Press published The Lost Frankenstein Pages, which collects unused finished artwork as able-bodied as sketches and studies wishy-washy Wrightson.

In 1994, Underwood-Miller in print a new edition of representation novel containing some of these previously unused illustrations, bringing class total from 43 to "over 45."

In October 2008, cooperation the 25th anniversary of primacy first edition, a new road was prepared and released revive 47 illustrations by Dark Equid Comics in an oversized (9" x 12"), hardcover format^[5] scanned from the original artwork, considering that it could be tracked down.^[2]

Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books work released a new version slash August 2020 in hardcover opinion a paperback is scheduled joyfulness April 2021; however, the magnitude for both is a tighten 6"x9", reducing the detail disintegration Wrightson's artwork.

Frankenstein Alive, Alive!

In 2012, Wrightson and writer Steve Niles began publishing a funny book series titled Frankenstein Unsleeping alert, Alive! which is billed orangutan a "sequel to Wrightson's renowned 1983 illustrated version" by IDW Publishing.^[6] Wrightson won his premier National Cartoonists Society's award remove the category Comic Books sustenance Frankenstein Alive, Alive! in 2013.^[7]

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