Edgar Rice Burroughs died in 1950 and Frank Frazzeta died in 2010 but they will both be with us for a very long time – that’s as close to immortality as you can get. Some images (walls) by Kyriakos was included in this work, and we acknowledge and appreciate this contribution that he is not yet aware of. Design by Balthasar & Blue Monkey, models by Blue Monkey, compositing by Balthasar. He is often referred to as the 'Godfather of fantasy art', and one of the most renowned. From a Cover illustration that the late, great Frank Frazetta did for the book 'John Carter and the Savage Apes of Mars'. Frazetta died of a stroke on May 10, 2010. Or as an adolescent perhaps is was the scantily clad voluptuous females.įrank Frazetta could sell books and was a great artist at the same time. Frank Frazetta (born Frank Frazzetta / f r z t / Febru May 10, 2010) was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers, and other media. Fran Frazetta’s painting for the novel A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. There is little doubt that cover art can sell paperbacks and Frank Frazetta was a master marketer. It was the art work on the covers of those Ace paperbacks by Frank Frazetta. What I can do is think about what attracted me to the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I watched the movie John Carter of Mars but wondered off to do something else about a quarter of the way through it. There are many other great artists to have depicted Barsoom (Mars), Carter, and the other wonders of Burroughs stories. Fifty years latter I can’t really appreciate Edgar Rice Burroughs like I did when I was young. And also like Conan, my favorite is probably the incomparable Frank Frazetta. Burroughs was a master of “graphic prose.” It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words – well Burroughs could do it with 20 words or less. In the 1970s, he was commissioned by Doubleday to create slipcovers and illustrations for Burroughs ' Martian series. The Martians wear next to nothing stuff that would be beyond scandalous on Earth but is perfectly fine on Barsoom, and such fashion choices are common in either gender. Silly fantasy but it could have been worse – I might have become interested in Ayn Rand. Frank Frazetta is an artist, famed for his beautiful paintings of fantastic women and creatures. There was of course Tarzan but there was also Barsoom and Pelucider not to mention Venus. He wrote over 91 novels, 26 of which were about Tarzan. My fascination with his stories continued through high school. Burroughs died alone at the age of 74 reading the Sunday comics in bed. ![]() Collected below are the 11 wraparound cover paintings without text, and four sketches. ![]() ![]() Krenkel and Frank Frazetta, Whelan brought his considerable skill in research and detail to give us a more fully-realised view of Barsoomian life than we had seen before. When I was in the 7th grade I discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs. Following in the footsteps of previous illustration greats like Roy G.
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