All Hail the King of Fantasy Art<\/p>\n
Frank Frazetta finally gets the big beautiful book he deserves<\/p>\n
Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed lord of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 12 years since his death. With his paintings now breaking auction records (Egyptian Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 2019) he\u2019s long overdue for this ultimate monograph.<\/p>\n
Born to a Sicilian immigrant family in Brooklyn, 1928, Frazetta was a minor league athlete, petty criminal and serial seducer with movie star looks and phenomenal talent. He claimed to only make art when there was nothing better to do \u2013 he preferred playing baseball – yet began his professional career in comics at age 16. Strip work led him to the infamous EC Comics, then to oils for Tarzan and Conan pulp covers. Both characters were interpreted by many before him, but as he explained in the 1970s, \u201cI\u2019m very physical minded. In Brooklyn, I knew Conan, I knew guys just like him,\u201d and he used this first-hand knowledge of muscle and macho to redefine fantasy heroes as more massive, more menacing, more testosterone-fueled than anything seen before. As counterbalance he created a new breed of women, nude as censorship allowed, with pixie faces and multiparous bodies: thick thighed, heavy buttocked, breasts cantilevered out to there, yet still, with their soft bellies and hints of cellulite, believably real. Add in the action, the creatures, the twilit worlds of haunting shadow and Frazetta\u2019s art is addictive as potato chips.<\/p>\n
This monograph is the most complete ever produced on the artist, done in collaboration with the Frazetta family and winner of a 2023 Eisner Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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