Don't forget Frazetta's work for EC - small in amount but absolutely stunning.
Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Russ Manning, Curt Swan, Alex Toth - most of my faves gone. Long live Steve Ditko!
Posted on 05/10/2010 1:24:32 PM PDT by Kartographer
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I couldn’t get enough of his Conan work...the one of Conan straddling a huge snake is a timeless classic.
Righto.
Today's comic artists (at least in America) can't hold a candle to his work.
Oh man, so sad. I’ve always been a fan of Frazetta, Parkinson, Vallejo, Royo et al.
He and Frazetta and Roy Krenkel used to collaborate and touch up either other's work in the studio.
I think he is. He was a little younger than most of the EC crowd.
Here’s a fantasy dinner for you Robert Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Frank Frazetta. ;-)
The detail in those strips is amazing.
RIP.
Not guilty.
I would say any large original painting by Frazetta is rightly and justifiably that valuable; I can only imagine what the original canvas of his superb "Death Dealer" is worth.
Frazetta kicked ass. He was not only a fine artist, he was a GREAT artist, though I'm sure that those of the elitist liberal artist community have always looked down their noses at him as not being a "real" artist the same way they sniggered and sneered at Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth.
I am married to a professional artist and painter, and many of our friends are professional artists and painters (including one VERY FINE artist in the sci-fi genre ... I love his stuff, and am looking over at a little print he gave me of a 'nother planet scene as I'm typing this sentence). Many FReepers will be surprised to learn that nearly all of the fine artists in our sphere are CONSERVATIVE Republicans. They make livings from their own skills and application of considerable self-discipline; they don't depend on government grants and their work isn't purchased by the kinds of idiots (most often Liberals, but not always) who mistake graphics for fine art and give ridiculously high value to crap that a third-grader could match in creation.
I used to be one of those idiots, or close to one (though never a liberal). I have changed my ideas as to how I gage art and I have a very simple test now that I am older and I hope wiser:
If I, with no training, could duplicate the piece myself given a week or two and sufficient materials, then it's overpriced if it's more than a few hundred bucks. Now I once saw a painting "valued" at nearly $100,000 and this "painting" consisted of: a 7 ft x 7 ft white canvas with a very large green circle painted on it.
Given the materials, I could replicate it in less than a day.
No matter how much paint and canvas and time you gave me, there's no way I could replicate a single one of Frazetta's gloriously beautiful paintings, let alone CREATE IT out of white canvas.
Yes, it is RIGHTLY valued at $1 million or more because it is an irreplaceable precious, unique work of very fine art that was the result of decades of training, discipline, and skill.
I am sad to hear that Frazetta is gone. RIP.
Crap. It is now possible to have a complete collection of the Art of Frank Frazetta. Who will inspire us now?
Gosh, you'd love me, then, especially when I'm wielding my Ruger Vaqueros! ;^)
There was only one Frazetta, but there are many fine artists inspired by him who will carry on and inspire the next generation.
Have faith! I'll bet Frazetta considered many talented artists as in the same league as himself.
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