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Vanguard continues their trademark Definitive Reference series with
Frazetta: World's Best Comics Cover Artist, a sister book to 2022's
hit, Frazetta Book Cover Art. While the prior book by illustration
and cartooning historian J. David Spurlock catalogued, documented,
and commented on all of Frazetta's book cover paintings, this new
volume focuses on the artist's comics magazine cover art, which
originally appeared on such periodicals as Creepy magazine, Ghost
Rider, Mad magazine, Vampirella, National Lampoon and EC Comics'
Weird Science-Fantasy.
Vanguard follows last year's hit Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta
book by J. David Spurlock with definitive reference on Frazetta
Book Cover Art. Frazetta is the revolutionary fantasy artist of
Conan, King Kong, Death Dealer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lord of The
Rings and more, whose original art sells for millions. This new
2022 Frazetta book follows last year's hit, Fantastic Paintings of
Frazetta and is similar to Vanguard's earlier Frazetta Definitive
Reference book. But, it is superior in at least one regard. Instead
of cataloging Frazetta items with mostly smaller illustrations,
this new book is devoted solely to the artist's single, most
beloved venue, Book Cover Art. By focusing on this specific area,
the book boasts room enough to feature every single one of
Frazetta's famous and highly collectable illustrated book covers,
beautifully and authentically reproduced at a larger size on a page
to itself. All are presented in chronological order which, gives
readers a unique ability to follow Frazetta's evolution as an
artist. Accompanying text includes commentary, original publication
titles, publishers, dates, and rare quotes from the artist himself.
For this Definitive Reference to feature the Complete Collection of
Frazetta's decades of book cover illustrations, in a single
beautifully produced volume, is a dream come true for Frazetta
fans, art and book collectors and historians alike.
Basil Gogos changed the face of classic horror with his film
monster portrait art. Like a bizarro-world Norman Rockwell, he
created magazine covers of Frankenstein, the Creature from the
Black Lagoon. the Phantom of the Opera, and countless others in
horrifying yet dazzling images throughout the 1960s and '70s. His
intense colour and bold, impressionistic brushwork gave a unique
sense of drama and sophistication to these iconic characters.
Today, collectors fight over his original art-but, with this book,
every fan can own glowing full-colour reproductions of his most
famous work as well as many previously unpublished paintings and
drawings.
Discover, or return to, the world's greatest heroic fantasy artist,
Frank Frazetta in this landmark art collection entitled, Fantastic
Paintings of Frazetta. The New York Times said, "Frazetta helped
define fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars
with signature images of strikingly fierce, hard-bodied heroes and
bosomy, callipygian damsels" Frazetta took the sex and violence of
the pulp fiction of his youth and added even more action, fantasy
and potency, but rendered with a panache seldom seen outside of
major works of Fine Art. Despite his fantastic subject matter, the
quality of Frazetta's work has not only drawn comparisons to the
most brilliant of illustrators, Maxfield Parrish, Frederic
Remington, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth but, even to the most
brilliant of fine artists including Rembrandt and Michelangelo and,
major Frazetta works sell for millions of dollars, breaking
numerous records. This innovator's work has not only inspired
generations of artists, but also movies and directors including the
Conan films, John Carter of Mars, the sensationally successful Lord
of the Rings trilogy, Robert Rodriguez' films including From Dusk
Till Dawn, Ralph Bakshi films, the epic, award-winning Game of
Thrones series, Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, Disney's animated
Tarzan films, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and George
Lucas' Star Wars series. The Forbes magazine article
Schwarzenegger's Sargent led with the line, "Which artist helped
make Arnold governor? Frank Frazetta, the Rembrandt of barbarians."
J. David Spurlock started crafting this book by reviving the
original million-selling 1970s mass market art book, Fantastic Art
of Frank Frazetta. But, he expanded and revised to include twice as
many images and, presents them at a much larger coffee-table book
size of 10.5 x 14.625"! The collection is brimming with both
classic and previously unpublished works of the subjects Frazetta
is best remembered for including barbarians, beasts, and buxom
beauties. Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin said, "Though
he bears only a passing resemblance to the Cimmerian as Robert E.
Howard described him, Frazetta's covers of the Conan paperback
collections became the definitive picture of the character... still
is." Schwarzenegger said, "I have not been intimidated that often
in my life. But when I looked at Frazetta's paintings, I tell you,
it was intimidating." Game of Thrones, Conan and Aquaman film star
Jason Momoa said, "I am a huge Frank Frazetta fan. Both of my
parents are painters, so I'd known Frazetta's paintings, that's
what I wanted to bring to life." See the revolutionary art that
helped inspire Schwarzenegger, Momoa, the Lord of the Rings films
and Game of Thrones: FRAZETTA!
Basil Gogos changed the face of classic horror with his film
monster portrait art. Like a bizarro-world Norman Rockwell, he
created magazine covers of Frankenstein, the Creature from the
Black Lagoon. the Phantom of the Opera, and countless others in
horrifying yet dazzling images throughout the 1960s and '70s. His
intense colour and bold, impressionistic brushwork gave a unique
sense of drama and sophistication to these iconic characters.
Today, collectors fight over his original art-but, with this book,
every fan can own glowing full-colour reproductions of his most
famous work as well as many previously unpublished paintings and
drawings.
This is the greatest work of the greatest pulp artist. The
masterful paintings of J. Allen St. John, the illustrator of
"Tarzan", John Carter of "Mars", and many other pulp icons,
inspired generations of later artists, including Frank Frazetta,
Roy G. Krenkel, and Jeffrey Jones. "The Paintings of J. Allen St.
John" presents the artist's full-colour fantasy and science-fiction
paintings for novels and pulp magazine stories by famous authors,
such as Edgar Rice Burroughs. Essays by today's top science-fiction
writers, including Jack Williamson, illustrator, Vincent Di Fate
and historian, Robert R. Barrett, make this book - Vanguard's
second devoted to the art of St. John - essential for any fantasy
collection. It includes more than 170 paintings of "Tarzan", John
Carter of "Mars", and more - many shot from original paintings. It
also features essays by top science fiction authors.
In his 60-year career, Carmine Infantino has practised nearly every
job that there is in the field of comics, for a "Who's Who" list of
publishers. But Infantino will always be remembered as the
personification of DC Comics' Silver Age. Infantino helped to
resurrect the dying comics industry in 1956, as the artist who
launched the Silver Age with his co-creation, the Flash, and
remains the best remembered Flash artist of all-time. Infantino
proved one of the all-time, great sci-fi artists with his elegant,
cityscaped Adam Strange. The only sci-fi comic to rival the sales
of "Adam Strange" was "Star Wars," to which Infantino also
contributed. In 1964, Infantino became indispensable to the Batman
legacy. He, with editor Julius Schwartz, saved the Caped Crusader's
comics from impending cancellation with the "New Look." Infantino
also redesigned the Batmobile and with Schwartz, created Batgirl.
In 1971, Infantino became Publisher and ultimately, President of DC
Comics. Infantino's brave corporate moves include: comic books of
pulp characters; the Shadow and Tarzan; the Adams/O'Neil Green
Lantern-Green Arrow series; Jack Kirby Fourth World saga; the
revival of Captain Marvel; pay raises, royalties, and the return of
originals to artists. This is Infantino's own history of comics,
through his experiences, from the industry's primordial, Golden
Age, through his artistic achievements, corporate years at DC
Comics, and post-corporate years including his animation work,
teaching, return as a top artist to DC, and Batman newspaper strip.
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