Makin’ Links # 147

Here’s a gallery of creepy odds and ends from macabre master Berni Wrightson. The collection includes covers from comics fanzines, small press books, TV Guide (!?) and a number of other little seen illustrations from Stephen King’s favorite artist.
http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2010/03/berni-wrightson-covers-and-misc.html
When one thinks of the Warren horror magazines in the seventies, the artist that comes most to mind is likely to be Rich Corben. Apparently it wasn’t an easy road for Corben and Warren to get together, though. Here’s the scoop along with Rich’s very first published Creepy story!
http://cloud-109.blogspot.com/2010/03/frozen-beauty-corbens-warren-debut.html
Vintage Sleaze takes a brief look at a recognizable cartoonist about whom very little is known-one Stanley Rayon. Rayon’s girlie cartoons appeared prolifically in the sixties and he is well described in this piece as the “dirty minded lost artist” with “clean lines.”
http://vintagesleaze.blogspot.com/2010/03/stanley-rayon-vintage-sleaze.html
Finally, Marvel Super Special‘s Star-Lord, by author Doug Moench, my very favorite comics writer of the seventies, and the classic art team of Gene Colan and Tom Palmer, all wrapped up in the amazing but short-lived “Marvel Color!”
http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2010/03/science-fiction-theater-world-in-bottle.html

— booksteve

































