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People who bought the books never complained about it. His cover art only coincidentally matched the storylines inside the books, as Frazetta once explained: 'I didn't read any of it. He also did several pen and ink illustrations for many of these books.

His covers were used for other paperback editions of classic Edgar Rice Burroughs books, such as those from the Tarzan and Barsoom (John Carter of Mars) series. From this point on, Frazetta's work was in great demand. His interpretation of Conan visually redefined the genre of sword and sorcery, and had an enormous influence on succeeding generations of artists.

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He did several other movie posters.įrazetta also produced paintings for paperback editions of adventure books. He was approached to do the movie poster for What's New Pussycat?, and earned the equivalent of his yearly salary in one afternoon. In 1964, Frazetta's painting of Beatle Ringo Starr for a Mad magazine ad parody caught the eye of United Artists studios. He also helped Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder on two or three stories of the bawdy parody strip Little Annie Fanny in Playboy magazine. In 1961, after nine years with Capp, Frazetta returned to comic books. The two would have four children: Frank Jr., Billy, Holly and Heidi. He married Massachusetts native Eleanor Kelly in New York City in November 1956. Frazetta was also producing his own strip, Johnny Comet at this time, as well as assisting Dan Barry on the Flash Gordon daily strip. Noticed because of his work on the Buck Rogers covers for Famous Funnies, Frazetta started working with Al Capp on Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner. Much of his work in comic books was done in collaboration with friend Al Williamson and mentor Roy Krenkel. In the early 1950s, he worked for EC Comics, National Comics, (including the superhero feature 'Shining Knight'), Avon Comics, and several other comic book companies. Some of his earliest work was in funny animal comics, which he signed as 'Fritz'. Kidd Jr.įrazetta was soon drawing comic books in many genres, including Westerns, fantasy, mystery, and historical drama. His next confirmed comics work are two signed penciled-and-inked pieces in Prize Comics' Treasure Comics #7 (July 1946): the four-page 'To William Penn founder of Philadelphia.' and the single page 'Ahoy! Enemy Ship!', featuring his character Capt. It was not standard practice in comic books during this period to provide complete credits, so a comprehensive listing of Frazetta's work is difficult to ascertain. 1944), published by Swappers Quarterly and Almanac/Baily Publishing Company.

His first comic-book work was inking the eight-page story 'Snowman', penciled by John Giunta, in the one-shot Tally-Ho Comics (Dec. In 1944, at age 15, Frazetta, who had 'always had this urge to be doing comic books', began working in comics artist Bernard Baily's studio doing pencil clean-ups. But perhaps if you did this or that.' But that's about it. 'He'd come and see where I was working, and he might say, 'Very nice, very nice. 'e didn't teach me anything, really,' Frazetta said in 1994.

So I went to art school when I was a little kid, and even there the teachers were flipping out.'Īt age eight, Frazetta attended the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts, a small art school run by instructor Michael Falanga. I remember the teachers were always mesmerized by what I was doing, so it was hard to learn anything from them. As I got older, I started drawing some pretty wild things for my age. Sometimes I had nothing left to draw on but toilet paper. 'When I drew something, she would be the one to say it was wonderful and would give me a penny to keep going. He recalled in 2010, a month before his death, The only boy among four children, he spent much time with his grandmother, who began encouraging him in art when he was two years old. The Eighth Wonder / King Kong and Snake - 1976īorn Frank Frazzetta in Brooklyn, New York City, he removed one 'z' from his last name early in his career to make his name seem less 'clumsy'. John Carter and the Savage Apes of Mars - 1971 He was the subject of a 2003 documentary.įrazetta was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1999. Elisa_rolleFrank Frazetta (Febru– May 10, 2010) was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media.

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