The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta

Dan Nadel, Zak Smith, Dian Hanson

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Taschen GmbH
10 September 2023

Individual artists, art monographs; Illustration & commercial art

Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 12 years since his death. With his paintings now breaking auction records (Egyptian Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 2019) he's long overdue for this ultimate monograph.

Born to a Sicilian immigrant family in Brooklyn, 1928, Frazetta was a minor league athlete, petty criminal and serial seducer with movie star looks and phenomenal talent. He claimed to only make art when there was nothing better to do - he preferred playing baseball - yet began his professional career in comics at age 16. Strip work led him to the infamous EC Comics, then to oils for Tarzan and Conan pulp covers. Both characters were interpreted by many before him, but as he explained in the 1970s, ""I'm very physical minded. In Brooklyn, I knew Conan, I knew guys just like him,"" and he used this first-hand knowledge of muscle and macho to redefine fantasy heroes as more massive, more menacing, more testosterone-fueled than anything seen before. As counterbalance he created a new breed of women, nude as censorship allowed, with pixie faces and multiparous bodies: thick thighed, heavy buttocked, breasts cantilevered out to there, yet still, with their soft bellies and hints of cellulite, believably real. Add in the action, the creatures, the twilit worlds of haunting shadow and Frazetta's art is addictive as potato chips.

This monograph is the most complete ever produced on the artist, done in collaboration with the Frazetta family. It won the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection.

By: Dan Nadel, Zak Smith
Edited by: Dian Hanson
Imprint: Taschen GmbH
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: Multilingual edition
Dimensions: Height: 395mm, Width: 290mm,
Weight: 4.870kg
ISBN: 9783836579216
ISBN 10: 3836579219
Pages: 468
Publication Date: 10 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Dian Hanson produced a variety of men's magazines from 1976 to 2001, including Juggs, Outlaw Biker, and Leg Show, before becoming TASCHEN's Sexy Book Editor. Her titles include the ""body part"" series, The Art of Pin-up, Masterpieces of Fantasy Art, and Ren Hang.

Reviews for The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta

The Godfather of fantasy art finally gets a proper monograph, as a team of artists, writers, scholars, and family members pay weighty tribute to Frazetta's insane vision and industry-changing career. * Village Voice * ...one of the most renowned illustrators of the 20th century. This collection highlights some of his best-known works, including paintings of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Vampirella, and his signature Death Dealer. * Esquire * ...a super-deluxe retrospective of Frazetta's career in comics, art, illustration and advertising. * forbes.com * The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta re-assesses the artist's influence on visual culture in the wake of his ever-increasing popularity. * Creative Review *