| Creator Bernard Krigstein (1919-1990) |
| Profession Penciller, Inker |
| Total Entries 25 |
| Articles Bernie Krigstein – Lambiek Comiclopedia Bernard Krigstein – Wikipedia |
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Bernard Krigstein approached comics as a serious art form, and his inventive, beautifully composed, almost cinematic use of panels (like quick jump cuts in a film) has never been equaled in comics… Krigstein became a regular (if reluctant) contributor to EC, illustrating a total of forty-seven stories over the next four years, including several pieces for Mad, which highlighted his brilliant gift for caricature. Krigstein’s masterpiece “Master Race”, a groundbreaking triumph of sequential storytelling, appeared in the debut issue of EC’s New Direction comic book Impact in 1955. Al Feldstein wrote the psychologically suspenseful narrative as a six-page story, but Krigstein expanded it to eight pages, It took place in a New York subway station with flashbacks to Nazi death camps and was the first mainstream comic story to deal with the still fresh and painful memory of the then decade-prior Holocaust. ~ Drew Friedman’s Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books – Fantagraphics (2014)
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