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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2021 0:44:20 GMT -5
There's also this one entitled The Flight of Icarus...  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2021 0:53:25 GMT -5
Not mythology, but he did a cover for a Roman historical fiction book called Rogue Roman, I'm putting behind spoiler tags because it includes nipples... There may be more, but those are the ones I can come up with off the top of my head. -M |
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Post by berkley on Feb 13, 2021 7:16:35 GMT -5
should have remembered the Atlantis and Roman ones, since i've seen those before, but I don't think I've seen that Icarus painting. All three reinforce my feeling that I would like to have seen him do more in this vein.
Did he ever do a cover for ERB's I am a Barbarian, set in ancient Rome? I'll have to search that when I get time.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 13, 2021 8:40:12 GMT -5
should have remembered the Atlantis and Roman ones, since i've seen those before, but I don't think I've seen that Icarus painting. All three reinforce my feeling that I would like to have seen him do more in this vein.
Did he ever do a cover for ERB's I am a Barbarian, set in ancient Rome? I'll have to search that when I get time.
Boris Vallejo did the cover for “I am a Barbarian.” One of the least reprinted of Burroughs’ books. |
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 13, 2021 9:47:19 GMT -5
And he did a Roman Legion on the cover of Marvel's Epic #1  |
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Post by MDG on Feb 13, 2021 12:43:47 GMT -5
One of the points made in the Frazetta documentary (was it called Painting with Fire?) is that he was the first artist to portray Conan in a "fantasy" way instead of relying on typical greco-roman models
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 13, 2021 12:49:58 GMT -5
Earlier Conan cover.  |
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Post by berkley on Feb 13, 2021 19:32:30 GMT -5
should have remembered the Atlantis and Roman ones, since i've seen those before, but I don't think I've seen that Icarus painting. All three reinforce my feeling that I would like to have seen him do more in this vein.
Did he ever do a cover for ERB's I am a Barbarian, set in ancient Rome? I'll have to search that when I get time.
Boris Vallejo did the cover for “I am a Barbarian.” One of the least reprinted of Burroughs’ books. Yes, that's the one I read as a teenager and that I still have. I like the Vallejo one but I would like to have seen what Frazetta might have come up with for it.
Of course these ancient Roman settings are more historical fiction than the mythology I was thining about earlier. Still interesting to see, though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2021 1:25:44 GMT -5
On Frazetta and Star Wars... First some of the covers in question...    Then Frank on George Lucas and saying no to an offer to do a Star Wars cover from the book Testament published in 2001... If only Lucas had offered a better deal, we might have had Frazetta Star Wars images to behold... -M |
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Post by berkley on Feb 22, 2021 22:13:02 GMT -5
I dunno - I like Frazetta and I like Star Wars, but I wouldn't necessarily have wanted to see Frazetta tied down to doing Star Wars for years. I think I<m happy he was able to do what he wanted by that stage of his career. I only wish Al Williamson could have done the same rather than having to draw the Star Wars strip in the later stages of his career.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2021 22:18:11 GMT -5
I dunno - I like Frazetta and I like Star Wars, but I wouldn't necessarily have wanted to see Frazetta tied down to doing Star Wars for years. I think I<m happy he was able to do what he wanted by that stage of his career. I only wish Al Williamson could have done the same rather than having to draw the Star Wars strip in the later stages of his career. The offer was a one-time commission to do the cover for the novelization of the first movie, so I don't think Frank would have been tied down doing something he didn't want to do. Frank chose the stuff he wanted to do as long as they met his terms for returning the original and retaining the rights, he was pretty open to doing anything. It took him a long time to get to the point he could make those two demands and still get work, so I have no issue with him not compromising on those terms, but it still would have been interesting to see Frank riffing off the McQuarrie designs supplied to the artists working on the posters and book covers at that time. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2021 16:15:57 GMT -5
So I had a strange Frazetta conversation this afternoon. It was my day off, and relatively mild-day weather-wise (clear and a high near 40), so I decided to take a ride just outside town to an antique mall complex near the highway onramp called The Heart of Ohio Antique Center. I browsed around for a couple of hours and picked up a stack of comics to purchase, and I was checking out and Greg, the clerk was asking me about my collection and what I liked/collected. I pointed to a Kubert cover and said, I collect a lot of certain artists like Joe Kubert there. And out of the blue he asks me "are you familiar with the work of Frank Frazetta?" I honestly think that's the first time I had ever been asked that question and I was actually taken aback and uncertain how to answer it, but I replied, yes, and as a matter of fact one of the things I was looking for and didn't find was vintage paperbacks with Frazetta art. He replied, oh cool, because Bill Frazetta, Frank's son, who owns a costume/Halloween shop in PA is a regular customer here and was just in a couple weeks ago. He often buys stuff for the store and spends a day looking around when he makes the trip in. The clerk didn't know a lot about Frazetta at first, but one of the managers there is a Frazetta nut and filled him in on who Frazetta was when he was waiting on Bill the first time a couple years back. It was just an interesting/unexpected interaction at the antique mall, as it's not every day where out of the blue someone asks you if you know who Frank Frazetta is. Of course my demented mind went to a parody skit of Moonies/JW, with Frazetta cultists wandering around with pamphlets asking people-"Are you familiar with the work of Frank Frazetta? Can we speak to you about the work of the master...?"
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 1, 2021 18:04:27 GMT -5
(...) Of course my demented mind went to a parody skit of Moonies/JW, with Frazetta cultists wandering around with pamphlets asking people-"Are you familiar with the work of Frank Frazetta? Can we speak to you about the work of the master...?" Not that I'd want to join, but I can at least see a point to forming a cult around Frazetta's art. |
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 1, 2021 19:31:13 GMT -5
Norman Saunders, who did that earlier CONAN cover, did the paintings for thr 1966 BATMAN bubble-gum cards, based on Bob Powell designs. Really cool stuff, and possibly the first paintings I ever saw that captured my attention.
I'm pretty sure my first exposure to Frank Frazetta was in the ads in the back of FAMOUS MONSTERS for various CONAN paperbacks!
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Post by profh0011 on Mar 1, 2021 19:35:52 GMT -5
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA LOST PLANET OF THE GODS LOST PLANET OF THE GODS, PART 2This looks SO MUCH cooler than the actual story!  WAR OF THE GODSThis story was the closest the show ever got to feeling like " STAR TREK". 
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