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Post by wildfire2099 on May 12, 2023 20:21:56 GMT -5
I did some googling on that pic.. it seems to be art alone, not for a particular book... multiple sources call it 'Madame Derringer'
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2023 0:31:51 GMT -5
 Picked this up at my lcs today..., it presents all of Frazetta's book covers, in chronological order, most as single page illustrations (rather than doubling or quadrupling up images as many art books do). It provides publication info for every cover he did, including reissues on different books, and often gives a recollection by Frank about the pieces garnered from various interviews over the years. I've just started making my way through it this evening and am enjoying it immensely. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2023 20:56:36 GMT -5
Finally tracked down a copy of this to watch via ILL...  Watching the main feature tonight, will check out the special bonus material tomorrow. -M |
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Post by MDG on Jun 3, 2023 10:08:06 GMT -5
Finally tracked down a copy of this to watch via ILL... Watching the main feature tonight, will check out the special bonus material tomorrow. -M It took me three starts to get through it. My issue was that it assumed viewers knew who Frazetta was and were already familiar with his work. Plus, there was very little new (to me) in it. The two things that stuck out to me as new was the idea that he was the first to portray Conan in a way that didn't draw on greek or roman models and the story about his stroke.
Coincidentally, about the same time, I caught a documentary about Reynold Brown on the local PBS station. At the time, I had no idea who Brown was, but was very familiar with his work (as most folks here probably are). The film told me not just about him, but put his work in the context of the industry and America when he did his most noted work. It just seemed to do a much better job explaining Brown's career. The Frazetta doc assumed viewers already believed he was great. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2023 10:34:26 GMT -5
Finally tracked down a copy of this to watch via ILL... Watching the main feature tonight, will check out the special bonus material tomorrow. -M It took me three starts to get through it. My issue was that it assumed viewers knew who Frazetta was and were already familiar with his work. Plus, there was very little new (to me) in it. The two things that stuck out to me as new was the idea that he was the first to portray Conan in a way that didn't draw on greek or roman models and the story about his stroke.
Coincidentally, about the same time, I caught a documentary about Reynold Brown on the local PBS station. At the time, I had no idea who Brown was, but was very familiar with his work (as most folks here probably are). The film told me not just about him, but put his work in the context of the industry and America when he did his most noted work. It just seemed to do a much better job explaining Brown's career. The Frazetta doc assumed viewers already believed he was great. I can see this not being a very good doc for a general audience. I did enjoy it, and I liked hearing a lot of biographical info I was familiar with in Frank's own words. I found a few of the experts annoying (in particular the Frazetta scholar who was the MC of the museum opening and seemed to be jumping down the audience's throat trying to refute any criticism or even any quasi-non-hagiographical POV anyone ever said. What it did for me was put a lot of the things I already knew in context and painted a fuller picture for me of the biographical scope of Frank's life-things like the struggles finding work post-L'il Abner leading to the movie poster work which always seemed a bit of a side track in the transition from comics to fantasy art. So, I enjoyed it, got a lot out of it, but yeah, I was already familiar with and a fan of Frazetta, and I can see how it might not be an effective intro to Frazetta for someone who isn't. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2023 11:41:21 GMT -5
Frazetta's Dark Kingdom...  better known to some as the cover to Molly Hatchet's Flirting with Disaster album, just sold at the Heritage Auctions for a cool $6 million. -M |
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Post by badwolf on Jun 23, 2023 12:21:40 GMT -5
Also used as the cover for Karl Edward Wagner's Dark Crusade.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 23, 2023 12:23:21 GMT -5
Those Frazetta covers sold a lot of Molly Hatchet albums.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Dec 29, 2023 11:53:17 GMT -5
Apparently there has been a long standing dispute between the Frazetta Estate/Frazetta Girls and J. David Spurlock and Vanguard Publishing that recently went to court. Here is the Press Release from the attorney for the Frazetta Estate/Frazetta Girls about the outcome of the case:
I'm not sure of the details of ths case, but I do know Frazetta himself sued Spurlock in 2008 for unauthorized use of his paintings and signature, so it seems this dispute has a long tail of history.
-M
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 31, 2023 17:52:05 GMT -5
I know that my first exposure was probably a Warren cover, but the first where I was aware of a name attached was in the issue of MOKF where Black Jack Tarr sees a print of the Polar Bears pulling the sleigh down a mountain.
That combines with my new love of Conan led me to the paperbacks, which begat...
About 10 years later I did a year learning sign writing, in which my friend and I air brushed multiple(terrible) copies of Frazetta paintings instead of signs
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Post by Axe Elf on Jan 12, 2024 21:29:44 GMT -5
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Feb 9, 2024 9:08:04 GMT -5
Today is the 96th anniversary of the birth of Frank Frazetta (Feb 9, 1928).  -M |
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