Double Natural was a big year for me - lots of good things happening.
I got married again (to the same woman).
We conceived our first child, but #1 Son didn't arrive until '78.
I was a scifi geek, and we'd been listening to this Lucas guy talk (at Space Con, i believe - one of the local Los Angeles conventions we used to attend) about his big movie concept before it came out, so i was among those wearing Star Wars t-shirts at the opening of the first film. (Of Course he was selling t-shirts there before the movie opened - he had the merchandising rights in his contract)
But there was one thing happening on my birthday that occurred on the other side of the country, in New York City, and online galleries were many decades away - so i missed it: The Berni Wrightson Exhibition.
The ads for his Frankenstein Portfolio, with those incredibly luxurious inks that merged fine art and comic art so deliciously were appearing at the time, and inspiring great lust for the collection. Seeing that his work was going to be hanging in a gallery seemed so right, son, that we wanted very much to be there.
At least i eventually found a gallery catalog for the show - one of 500 signed by The Artist - so we can get a glimpse of what was on display:
Yeah, i never made it there.
But, it was still a good year.
(Better?)
I got married again (to the same woman).
We conceived our first child, but #1 Son didn't arrive until '78.
I was a scifi geek, and we'd been listening to this Lucas guy talk (at Space Con, i believe - one of the local Los Angeles conventions we used to attend) about his big movie concept before it came out, so i was among those wearing Star Wars t-shirts at the opening of the first film. (Of Course he was selling t-shirts there before the movie opened - he had the merchandising rights in his contract)
But there was one thing happening on my birthday that occurred on the other side of the country, in New York City, and online galleries were many decades away - so i missed it: The Berni Wrightson Exhibition.
The ads for his Frankenstein Portfolio, with those incredibly luxurious inks that merged fine art and comic art so deliciously were appearing at the time, and inspiring great lust for the collection. Seeing that his work was going to be hanging in a gallery seemed so right, son, that we wanted very much to be there.
At least i eventually found a gallery catalog for the show - one of 500 signed by The Artist - so we can get a glimpse of what was on display:
Yeah, i never made it there.
But, it was still a good year.
(Better?)
art by Bernie Wrightson from the NYCA Gallery Catalog (Oct 1977)
That's a surprise. I remember first seeing the Frankenstein book in the early or mid '80s and assumed that's when it was published. Just checked - I've got the 1983 printing with the Stephen King introduction, which I think I bought around the mid or late '80s (could be wrong though), but to learn that it first came out 40 years ago is frightening.
ReplyDeleteFrankenstein should be frightening, right? So, all good there.
ReplyDeleteYou know how frelled my personal timeline is, so i can't say with any certainty - but it could well be that there was a portfolio edition with some of the plates released before the book itself.
Regardless - great stuff, with the love shining in the labour.