Best Selling Books by Bernie Wrightson

Michael H. Price''s forays into the horrors of Texas -- real and imaginary, horripilating and often humorous, make for a whopping 300 pages of comic-book stories. Featuring such championship artists and authors as John Wooley, Rand Holmes, Jack "Jaxon" Jackson, Bernie Wrightson, Pat Boyette, Robert Hayward Webb, and Meatwood Flack. Not to mention a premiere appearance for the "Killer Shrews" graphic novella, based upon the 1959 film and its 2015 revamp at Texas'' Hip Pocket Theatre. From the authors of the "Forgotten Horrors" series of movie-history books.

Cartoonist Wallace Wood created and published his own magazine -- witzend. Witzend immediately became a venue for personal work, without regard to commercial constraints and with contributors like Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, and Reed Crandall. (And that was just the first issue!) In later issues, Steve Ditko, Art Spiegelman, Vaughn Bodé, Jim Steranko, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Howard Chaykin, Bernie Wrightson -- and dozens more -- joined in.