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Only one Frazetta. I can't think of another illustrator who's had such a pervasive effect on popular culture. This black and white book, slim at 96 pages, offers a fascinating collection of his work. Even better, it includes biographical notes up to about 1980, when this book was published.It precedes Frazetta's wave of popularity in the 1990s. Despite the B&W format, it shows why so many people came to value his work, including a few of his lesser-known comics. The majority of the pieces here, however, are pen or pencil sketches. His sword and sorcery work is best known, including scantily- (and un-) clad swordswomen. Many will recognize the style from paperback covers, especially for Edgar Rice Burroughs books. Other drawings tend toward mens-magazine nymphs that combine humor with mild eroticism.I fault this book only for B&W reproduction of works that were originally in color - the greys barely indicate the intensity of Frazetta's palette, and for brevity. Don't mind me complaining about brevity, though, because I'll always want more of this work,and the book's publication date necessarily omits everything that came later.The Living Legend lives on. As of this writing, he lives on in physical fact, still producing despite reduced health. Even when that is no longer true, he'll live on in his huge and varied body of work, and in the generations of illustrators that learned from him.//wiredweird
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Only one Frazetta. I can't think of another illustrator who's had such a pervasive effect on popular culture. This black and white book, slim at 96 pages, offers a fascinating collection of his work. Even better, it includes biographical notes up to about 1980, when this book was published.
It precedes Frazetta's wave of popularity in the 1990s. Despite the B&W format, it shows why so many people came to value his work, including a few of his lesser-known comics. The majority of the pieces here, however, are pen or pencil sketches. His sword and sorcery work is best known, including scantily- (and un-) clad swordswomen. Many will recognize the style from paperback covers, especially for Edgar Rice Burroughs books. Other drawings tend toward mens-magazine nymphs that combine humor with mild eroticism.
I fault this book only for B&W reproduction of works that were originally in color - the greys barely indicate the intensity of Frazetta's palette, and for brevity. Don't mind me complaining about brevity, though, because I'll always want more of this work,and the book's publication date necessarily omits everything that came later.
The Living Legend lives on. As of this writing, he lives on in physical fact, still producing despite reduced health. Even when that is no longer true, he'll live on in his huge and varied body of work, and in the generations of illustrators that learned from him.
//wiredweird
It precedes Frazetta's wave of popularity in the 1990s. Despite the B&W format, it shows why so many people came to value his work, including a few of his lesser-known comics. The majority of the pieces here, however, are pen or pencil sketches. His sword and sorcery work is best known, including scantily- (and un-) clad swordswomen. Many will recognize the style from paperback covers, especially for Edgar Rice Burroughs books. Other drawings tend toward mens-magazine nymphs that combine humor with mild eroticism.
I fault this book only for B&W reproduction of works that were originally in color - the greys barely indicate the intensity of Frazetta's palette, and for brevity. Don't mind me complaining about brevity, though, because I'll always want more of this work,and the book's publication date necessarily omits everything that came later.
The Living Legend lives on. As of this writing, he lives on in physical fact, still producing despite reduced health. Even when that is no longer true, he'll live on in his huge and varied body of work, and in the generations of illustrators that learned from him.
//wiredweird
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Collectible? Like new? The spine is cracked in three places: top, bottom and middle! Creased cover!
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Doug McColl
Reviewed in Canada on December 7, 2022
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