R.I.P Frank Frazetta

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Aw, I'd heard about him before too, but not until this thread did I know one of his paintings was adapted to be the cover of Wolfmother's first album. I always thought that was awesome, and never knew where it was from. R.I.P
 
Always loved the man's art. rip

I remember seeing a great statue of his Death Dealer creation a few years back. Thing was expensive as hell.
 
Terrible news. Discovered his work after getting into other fantasy artists like Boris Vallejo many years ago. Became a fan right away. R.I.P. Frank.
 
Doubly tragic because he was estranged from his son, who recently broke into his own family art museum and took $20,000,000 worth of stuff.

I know that had to be painful for him, to have a son like that. And I hope the son feels real fucked up right about now for this shit.

In any event, he was a great and I admired his work and visited some of his local collections on various occasions since they're so close to me (not even 20 mins).
 
everyone even remotely interested needs to watch that doc on him. it is a really great film. really great.

calling him a "sci-fi artist" is a slight. the man was an absolute genius.

Amir0x said:
Doubly tragic because he was estranged from his son, who recently broke into his own family art museum and took $20,000,000 worth of stuff.

I know that had to be painful for him, to have a son like that. And I hope the son feels real fucked up right about now for this shit.

In any event, he was a great and I admired his work and visited some of his local collections on various occasions since they're so close to me (not even 20 mins).
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oh fuck. i hadnt heard about that. thats really a shame. how sad.

i would love to see his works in person. that museum looks so amazing.

Barry Obama said:
Always preferred his work over Boris'.
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Boris could never hold a candle to Frank. not even close imo.
 
Now all that's left are photo tracers. >:(

If you want to see how messed up the Frazetta family dynamic was, watch Painting With Fire. Basically none of his offspring would follow in his footsteps because his legacy was so massive!

When old age prevented him from drawing with his right hand anymore, he taught himself to draw with his left hand!

He was a badass and tenacious dude. R.I.P. Frank.
 
ImperialConquest said:
Check out his LEGACY and ICON (coffee table) books...

So good.
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Thanks for the suggestion, I'm a sucker for coffee table books despite the fact that I neither have one nor do I drink coffee. I don't even have a table in my room come to think of it.
 
Frank's renditions of John Carter are so amazing.
It's the only thing I'm ever going to root against Pixar for.

"Dated" my ass.

RIP homie
 
Daigoro said:
everyone even remotely interested needs to watch that doc on him. it is a really great film. really great.

calling him a "sci-fi artist" is a slight. the man was an absolute genius.



oh fuck. i hadnt heard about that. thats really a shame. how sad.

i would love to see his works in person. that museum looks so amazing.



Boris could never hold a candle to Frank. not even close imo.
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whoa whoa whoa! let's not turn this into an argument but i will just say that both understood the human and took different stylistic approaches.
 
m3k said:
didnt know of his work properly but i have seen his stuff

hes the conan guy right? shit

RIP
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He created the definite Conan when the books were republished in the late sixities/early seventies:

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ymmv said:
He created the definite Conan when the books were republished in the late sixities/early seventies:

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Any idea where I can find those conan comics? I remember religiously reading them when I was a kid. The artwork in those books were amazing.
 
I think he is talking about the Conan NOVELS, though in the 60's I think they would have been the re-written ones. These days it is pretty easy to get the original Robert Howard Conan books on Kindle or in print. As for the comics, the Marvel run has been collected into a series of books, and the new run, up till 50 or so when I lost touch, was pretty damned good (lots of Howard adaptations).
 
Newsarama: Industry Artists Remember Frank Frazetta

David Hine: I cherish every page of comics that Frank Frazetta produced, but like most people, it was the covers that really impressed, whether the ink renditions on the EC books, like the classic "Caveman" cover on Weird Science Fantasy, or the stunning paintings, particularly the Conan series and the Warren books -- Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, Blazing Combat. His painting was gorgeous, his composition immaculate and his characters intensely real. The male characters were all scarred flesh, heavy muscles honed in battle, and eyes that had stared into the pit of Hell. The women were real women. Women with bellies, buttocks, hips and breasts that responded to gravity. What made these illustrations great was that each one told a story, and often a better story than those they were actually illustrating. Take any Frazetta painting and you could build an entire series around it. His influence on comics has been immeasurable. There is no depiction of heroic fantasy in comics that doesn't start out from his vision. He set the standard so high that the only comparison that can be made with his innumerable imitators, is to judge just how far short they fall.
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And Jimmy Palmiotti shares a personal story about the first time he met Frank Frazetta on his blog.

http://jimmypalmiotti.blogspot.com/2010/05/frank-frazetta-rip.html

WARNING: the rest of Jimmy's blog contains some NSFW imagery.
 
Oh hell, I didn't find out about this until two minutes ago, when I was browsing someone's DeviantArt gallery and noticed a remark in the description of a piece.

R.I.P. Frank Frazetta, a legendary artist and a true inspiration.
 
Honestly never heard of his name before this thread, but I've definitely seen some of that artwork. It's "classic western fantasy art" at its finest, and heavily reminds me of shit I used to pour over as kid, such as the 2nd edition AD&D books, Might & Magic instruction manuals, Conan books, and whatnot.
Amazing stuff. He'll be missed, for sure. :(
 
Does anyone know a good place to get Frazetta prints, if anywhere?

I've been wanting a print of Death Dealer (OP pic) for the longest time, but I haven't had any luck.
 
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