Legendary artist Bernie Wrightson has been creating creature artwork for over thirty years. Best known for co-creating the comic book character Swamp Thing, and for definitively illustrating Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bernie also collaborates regularly with author Stephen King, having illustrated The Stand, Cycle of the Werewolf, and the Dark Tower V.

Bernie began working in comics at DC Comics in 1968, providing many stories for DC's House of Mystery and House of Secrets anthology titles, before co-creating Swamp Thing (with CONvergence 2006 Guest of Honor Len Wein), which he went on to illustrate in his own title.

By 1974. Bernie had left DC to work at Warren Publishing, for whose black-and-white horror-comics magazines he produced a series of original work as well as adaptations of stories by H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. In 1975, Wrightson joined with fellow artists Jeff Jones, Michael Kaluta, and Barry Windsor-Smith to form "The Studio," a shared loft in Manhattan where the group would pursue creative products outside the constraints of comic book commercialism. Though he continued to produce sequential art, Wrightson at this time began producing artwork for numerous posters, prints, calendars, and even coloring books.

Wrightson spent seven years drawing approximately 50 detailed pen-and-ink illustrations to accompany an edition of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, which the artist considers among his most personal work.

Bernie also wrote and drew the sci-fi mini-series Captain Sternn, which was the basis for one of the segments of the cult-favorite Heavy Metal movie.

Bernie drew the poster for the Stephen King-penned horror film Creepshow, as well as illustrating the comic book adaptation of the film. This led to several other collaborations with King, including illustrations for the novella "Cycle of the Werewolf" and the restored edition of King's apocalyptic horror epic, The Stand. Bernie has contributed album covers for a number of bands, including Meat Loaf.

As a conceptual artist, Bernie's worked on many movies, particularly in the horror genre: well-known films include Ghostbusters, The Faculty, Galaxy Quest, Spider-man, and George Romero's Land of the Dead. Recently, Bernie did production design for the characters the Reavers in the 2005 film Serenity. Most recently, Bernie contributed creature designs for Frank Darabont's screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist.

Today, Bernie resides in Los Angeles with his wife Liz, where he works both on film designs and his own pet projects, including comic books, character designs for animation, and creepy drawings just for fun!

Visit Bernie's official website at http://www.wrightsonart.com/.