He would later illustrate the cover for TV Guide magazine's April 26 – issue, illustrating the TV miniseries of King's The Shining (miniseries). This led to several other collaborations with King, including illustrations for the novella Cycle of the Werewolf, the restored edition of King's apocalyptic horror epic, The Stand, and Wolves of the Calla, the fifth installment of King's Dark Tower series. In 1983 Wrightson illustrated the comic book adaptation of the Stephen King penned horror film Creepshow. I pretty much knew at the time, 'These are the good ole days.'" They'd come up and we'd have popcorn and sit around and talk about whatever a 26, 27 and 20-year-old guys talk about. Simonson recalls, "We'd get together at 3 a.m. At one point Wrightson lived in the same Queens apartment building as artists Allen Milgrom, Howard Chaykin and Walter Simonson. Like many artists in the 1970s and 1980s, Wrightson moved to New York in hopes of finding work with comics publishers such as DC Comics or Marvel Comics. It was for Marvel's Chamber of Darkness and Tower of Shadows titles where he was first encouraged to slightly simplify his intricate pen-and-ink drawing, and where his lush brushwork, a hallmark of his comics inking in the 1970s, was first evidenced. He continued to work on a variety of mystery and anthology titles for both DC and, a few years later, its principal rival, Marvel Comics. In 1968, he drew his first professional comic book story, "The Man Who Murdered Himself", which appeared in House of Mystery No. Wrightson began spelling his name "Berni" in his professional work to distinguish himself from an Olympic diver named Bernie Wrightson, but later restored the final "e" to his name. In 1968, he showed copies of his sequential art to DC Comics editor Dick Giordano and was given a freelance assignment.
The following year, after meeting artist Frank Frazetta at a comic-book convention in New York City, he was inspired to produce his own stories. In 1966, Wrightson began working for The Baltimore Sun newspaper as an illustrator. His artistic influences were Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Al Dorne, Graham Ingels, Jack Davis and Howard Pyle. He received training in art from watching Jon Gnagy on television, reading comics, particularly those of EC, as well as through a correspondence course from the Famous Artists School. Wrightson was born October 27, 1948, in Dundalk, Maryland.
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