Head Medicine's Museum of International Comic Art: purple pictography

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Vaughn Bode and Berni Wrightson - "Purple Pictography" (1971)

in 1971, underground comix legend Vaughn Bode (1941-1975) and a young Berni Wrightson (1948 - )teamed up for an unusual series of adult comic shorts titled "Purple Pictography" for the men's magazine Swank. Bode wrote the strip and Wrightson drew and painted them in a bold and vibrant cartoony style. the pair turned out five 3-page stories before the series trailed off, and these pages remain as artifacts of one of the more bizarre collaborations in comic history.

Wrightson's words on these pages:

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Head Medicine's Museum of International Comic Art is a continuing online resource highlighting the finest artwork from the world's premier comic book illustrators. Most of the art to be featured has been long out of print or has never been available in the United States. MICA believes that this artwork needs to be revealed to a larger audience, especially in the US where much of it remains obscured, rather than leaving it to a select knowledgeable few in the collector's market. All works are presented for scholarly review and are copyright their respective creators unless otherwise noted. Obviously nothing beats holding these pages in their original printed form, and when at all possible, purchase printed editions that support these creators, please.

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