This video presents Frank Frazetta art on comic book covers, primarily western and science fiction (sci-fi) art, from 1950 to 1954, in chronological order.
This was during the Golden Age of Comic Books, which was from 1938 to 1956.
In the near future, do you want a movie made based on any any of the art or the characters portrayed?
Frank Frazetta was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media.
He is often referred to as the "Godfather" of fantasy art, and one of the most renowned illustrators of the 20th century.
He lived from 1928 to 2010.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York City and was the only boy in a family of three sisters, and spent much time with his grandmother, who began encouraging him in art when he was two years old.
At age eight, he attended the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts.
At age sixteen, in 1944, he began working in comics artist Bernard Baily’s studio doing pencil clean-ups.
After this he did more work in the comic book industry.
Later, he produced paintings for mass market paperback editions of adventure books.
His interpretation of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian visually redefined the genre of sword and sorcery, and had an enormous influence on succeeding generations of artists.
Primarily, these were in oil, but he also worked in watercolor, ink and pencil alone.
Frazetta’s work in comics during this time were cover paintings and a few comic stories in black-and-white for the Warren Publishing horror and war magazines, Creepy, Eerie, Blazing Combat, and Vampirella.
The 1983 animated epic dark fantasy adventure movie Fire and Ice was a collaboration between Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta.
Many more Frank Frazetta videos, short and longer, can be viewed at the Comic Excitement Convention Frank Frazetta Playlist.
