Bernie Wrightson (b. 1948, Dundalk, Maryland; d. 2017, Austin, Texas) began his career working for DC Comic’s horror anthologies House of Mystery and The Witching Hour. In 1971, he and Len Wein cocreated the Swamp Thing character. Wrightson spent seven years crafting his passion project, Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein (an illustrated version of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel) which he published in 1983.