Frank Frazetta dead from a stroke at age 82. Frazetta (pictured above) created covers and illustrations for more than 150 books and comic books, along with album covers, movie posters and original paintings. His illustrations of Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Vampirella and other characters influenced many later artists. And although he drew and painted many voluptious and sexy fantasy women, I would say he was one of the few artists who equaly painted his men with raw sexualuality and power. Skimpy loin cloths or nothing at all yet, in control and with barbaric power...
...I first became familiar with Frazetta through his animated film "Fire and Ice" (above) which took the best elements from his most famous works and created a film around them. The same combination of beauty and danger traslated very well from his paintings to a animation. It's out on dvd if you want to see for yourself...
...his John Carter of Mars art is amazing as well. There are hundreds of examples of his work out there, too many to show here. But his art and work will live forever.
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As I've all ready said at superunderwearperverts.blogspot.com:
"Frank Frazetta was the man before that classification came to be. His works illuminated the texts of Edgar Rice Burroughs like none before. He transported us to the other worlds of John Carter and captured the steaming ferocity of Tarzan's jungles with all their perils and lost civilizations. Prior to Frank no one came close to capturing muscular, male eroticism. One need only look at the detail he lavishedd on the figure of the jungle lord in "Tarzan Meets La of Opar". Frank understood the appeal of a hard, cut physique because quite often he used himself as a model for the near naked warriors he depicted. He wasn't just "The Man". Underneath he was himself a transported, planetary explorer or primal savage stripped to the skant g-string slung from his loins and facing danger barehanded."
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