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ARH STUDIS DISPLAY & DEATH DEALER STATUE By FRANK FRAZETTA

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Channel: SKULLNY · 2014 · People & Blogs

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Alex from ARH is so awesome. Everything about Frank Frazetta's art is bigger than life. Born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1928, his talent was so prodigious that he had his first professional comic story, "The Snowman" in Tally-Ho Comics (see panel at left), published in 1944 at the tender age of 16. During the 1940's, his primary outlet was Standard (or Nedor) Publishing Co. for which he did hundreds of small illustrations that were used to illustrate text stories. Titles include Barnyard, Coo Coo, Goofy and Happy. He did a few stories for these titles, plus occasional forays into "serious" genres like crime and westerns. And even then, he was learning how to paint, as the fairy from 1949 attests.In the early 1950's, Frazetta burst upon the mainstream comic scene with an incredible explosion of talent and energy. He did series for DC ("The Shining Knight" in Adventure Comics), ME ("White Indian" in Durango Kid - see image at right), Toby ("John Wayne" in John Wayne Comics, with Al Williamson); covers for Eastern (Heroic Comics), Famous Funnies (Famous Funnies Comics - the classic "Buck Rogers" covers), ME (Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders, Ghost Rider, Straight Arrow, and Tim Holt); and stories (some solo and some with Williamson and friends) for ACG, Avon, DC, Eastern, EC, Standard, and others. Plus he was doing his own newspaper strip, "Johnny Comet". In 1953, this amazing powerhouse of energy was harnessed by a combination of laziness, money and his love of goofing off and playing baseball (Frank was scouted by the pros - I'm glad he chose art!). He went to work for Al Capp assisting him on "Li'l Abner" - a position he held for eight or nine years. His comic book work tailed off to nothing by 1955 and he seemed to simply disappear from the world of art and comics, smothered under the Capp house style.

The Capp experience took a couple of years to recover from. When he quit he thought he'd just storm back into comics, but the market had drastically changed by the early '60s. His first jobs were for men's magazines (like Gent and Dude) and for a couple of sexy paperbacks referred to as "The Midwood Doubles". For these, Frazetta did interior drawings which have since been reprinted as The Sensuous Frazetta, The Frazetta You Didn't Know About, and elsewhere.He never really did get back to comics, though. Roy Krenkel, one of the Fleagles from the EC days, convinced him to try his hand at painting paperback covers and helped him out on his first few jobs - "Tarzan" covers for Ace Books. In 1964 Jim Warren recruited him to do a comic story for the first issue of his new magazine, Creepy. It was to be the last pen & ink comic strip Frank would do. At about the same time an issue of Mad Magazine appeared with a Frazetta back cover painting of Ringo Starr as a model for Blecch Shampoo and the direction of his career was forever altered. Frank Frazetta wasn't a comic book or comic strip artist, Frank Frazetta was a painter.

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