Media release — working in comic books for just over a decade in the 1940s as well as ’50s, Bernard Krigstein used all the craft, intelligence, as well as aspiration of a burgeoning “serious” artist, achieving results that stay sensational to this day. While his legend rests mainly on his landmark narratives produced for EC Comics, lots of stories for lower publishers similarly showcase his singular draftsmanship as well as radical reinterpretation of the comics page.
Harvey Award-winning Krigstein biographer Greg Sadowski has set up the extremely finest of the artist’s work, starting with his earliest innovative rumblings, with his glory days at EC, to his final daring experiments for Stan Lee’s Atlas Comics — running with almost every genre prominent at the time, be it horror, science fiction, war, western, or romance.
This edition reprints the out-of-print 2004 hardcover B. Krigstein Comics, with a number of stories re-tooled as well as improved in terms of reproduction, as well as a number of new stories added. Legendary EC colorist Marie Severin, in her last major task before her retirement, recolored 20 stories for this edition. The remainder has been taken from printed comics, digitally brought back with subtlety as well as restraint. original art pages, photostats from Krigstein’s personal archives, as well as an substantial set of historical as well as editorial notes by Sadowski round out this compelling volume.
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Messages in a Bottle: Comic book stories by B. Krigstein
edited by Greg Sadowski
272-page full-color 8″ x 10.5″ softcover • $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-60699-580-8
Ships in: February 2013 (subject to change)
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