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Bernie (Bernard) Krigstein

Bernie (Bernard) Krigstein (1919 - 1990) was active/lived in New York.  Bernie Krigstein is known for Comic book artist, painting, teaching.

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Bernard Krigstein (March 22, 1919 - January 8, 1990), was an American illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art.  He was known as Bernie Krigstein, and his artwork usually displayed the signature B. Krigstein.  He is best remembered for his contributions to EC Comics during the early 1950s.

He was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1992 and The Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Krigstein was trained as a classical painter.

Krigstein's most famous work in comic books is the short story "Master Race", originally published in the debut issue (April 1955) of EC Comics' Impact.  The protagonist is a former Nazi death camp commandant named Reissman who had managed to elude justice until he is spotted ten years later riding a New York subway.  This story was remarkable for its subject matter,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2363 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Bernie (Bernard) Krigstein

   Bernie (Bernard) Krigstein  Born:  1919 - Brooklyn, New York
Died:   1990
Known for:  Comic book artist, painting, teaching

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Bernard Krigstein (March 22, 1919 - January 8, 1990), was an American illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art.  He was known as Bernie Krigstein, and his artwork usually displayed the signature B. Krigstein.  He is best remembered for his contributions to EC Comics during the early 1950s.

He was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1992 and The Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Krigstein was trained as a classical painter.

Krigstein's most famous work in comic books is the short story "Master Race", originally published in the debut issue (April 1955) of EC Comics' Impact.  The protagonist is a former Nazi death camp commandant named Reissman who had managed to elude justice until he is spotted ten years later riding a New York subway.  This story was remarkable for its subject matter, since the Holocaust was rarely discussed in popular media of the 1950s. Krigstein, who sometimes chafed at the limits of the material EC gave him to illustrate, expanded what had been planned as a six-page story into an eight-page one.  The results were so striking that the company reworked the issue to accommodate the two extra pages.

Krigstein also did humor, such as "Crash McCool" in Mad #26 and "From Eternity Back to Here" in Mad #12.

In the early 1960s, Krigstein left comics in order to draw and paint illustrations for magazines, book jackets and record albums, eventually turning away from commercial assignments in order to focus on fine art.  In 1962 he took a position at the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, where he taught for 20 years.

As he told a 1962 interviewer, "It's what happens between these panels that's so fascinating. Look at all that dramatic action that one never gets a chance to see. It's between these panels that the fascinating stuff takes place. And unless the artist would be permitted to delve into that, the form must remain infantile.

He was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1992 and The Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005.

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