R.I.P. Frank Frazetta

Brand X Daily ^ | 5/10/10 | Richard Metzger

[tarawa]

Greg and Tim Hildebrandt come to mind, but their work is still lacking that certain something that Frazetta had.

[Travis McGee]

Yes indeed, FF had no use for anorexic runway model types!

[4yearlurker]

WoW! I am bummed big time! I grew up on Frank's Creepy and Eerie magazine covers! The early Creepy covers (2-15) are the best.
Another piece of my childhood gone. (Sigh)

RIP Mr. Frazetta.

[Kartographer]

"Greg and Tim Hildebrandt come to mind, but their work is still lacking that certain something that Frazetta had."

Agreed a certian something!

[Little Bill]

Back in the good old days when Ma was loading with a hatchet in her belt. People laugh but it was true, think Hanna Dustin, never get in the way of a woman and her pups, Hell Has No Furrie!

[Old Student]

“There are two artists whose work I’d love to see in an exhibit of original canvases: Frank Frazetta, and N.C. Wyeth.”

Wyeth? Who’s he, and what magazines did he illustrate?

;)
OS<-———ducking now!

[grey_whiskers]

My favorite Wally Wood was Mad Magazine's Superduperman:

(Though not in the same league, I am also partial to George Woodbridge and Jack Davis...)

Cheers!

[Finny]

Don't know how I missed this post -- I just had a hankering to see the Death Dealer (I love that painting) and so am re-browsing the thread:

Hollywood did not appreciate his famous commercial poster work at the end. Disney/Dimension Films rejected this painting for From Dusk Till Dawn (I believe that he gave it to director Robert Rodriguez)

*sigh* What can you say. Had Disney/Dimension films used the poster, Disney would have had one more notable classic in its legacy.

I bet the real "problem" was that Frazetta refused to paint by committee. Sometimes entertainment execs think of artists as wrists for their own compositions, and the artist knows their composition is crap (as are most movie posters, even the most meticulously painted of them).

Robert Rodriguez has a piece of breathtaking fine art, the kind of thing that will be cherished by somebody 500 years from now, if the canvas survives.

[Semper Mark]

Well, it has been almost two months since Frank's passing and I wasn't even aware of it until today. Just goes to show how much I've been out of the loop lately.

In my youth I was introduced to Frank Frazetta's work through the Vampirella, CREEPY, and EERIE magazines. My mother actually allowed me to buy those, as well as MAD magazine. If you knew the type of upbringing that I had you'd be just as surprised now as I was then. If she had only known what they were going to do to me. ;^)

Frazetta's work captivated and amazed me (pictures of scantily clad women have a way of doing that to a boy). He was also an influence and he's still one of my favorite artists to this day.

May he RIP

Frank Frazetta (self portrait - 1962)

[Salamander]

Yeah, and I'm still looking for the guy who posed for Kane.....:)

[Oatka]

Hopefully that is an image of the American Voter this November - and the one in 2012.

[Salamander]

For that, I prefer "The Mad King".....;D

[Richard Kimball]

I read an interview where Frazetta talked about that self portrait. He'd just been rejected for a job and was walking down the street, about to explode. He said he saw two iron rings sticking out of a fence and in his anger, grabbed and twisted them, misshaping them. He went home, saw his face in the mirror, and wanted to capture his sense of rage before he lost it.

He said he went back by the fence later, and in his normal state, couldn't have begun to twist the iron rings out of shape.

Hard to believe now, but prior to the Creepy/Conan covers, Frazetta couldn't get work as an artist. Editors believed his work was too "old school." They associated him with the Prince Valiant, Buck Rogers type artwork that was falling out of favor.

[Semper Mark]

"Hard to believe now, but prior to the Creepy/Conan covers, Frazetta couldn't get work as an artist."

Disappointment and rage can be used as fuel for success.

A lesser man would've folded his tent, but not Frazetta, he was doing what he was born to do.

Frank Frazetta - Gods and Monsters with Gothic accompaniment

[Semper Mark]

For that, I prefer... - "The Destroyer"

(The bloody cleaver)

[Semper Mark]

To post 95.

I should have known that pic would disappear...

"The Destroyer"

[Salamander]

*sigh*

It’s confessional time.

Back in the 90s, I made good money reproducing Frazetta and Vallejo works on Harleys.

Every time he saw me, one of the local bike builder legends always asked “You still paintin’ that ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ sh*t?”

If only folks would get interested in Brom, Michael Parkes or Chris Achilleos, now.

[still mad for Maxfield Parrish and Caspar David Friedrich]

[shibumi]

How about Vargas?

[shibumi]

Ping to #98.

(Sorry!)