has been synonymous with strength and adventure, muscles and swords, and of epic fantasy. In the U.S., Frank Frazetta is an icon of a genre that can be summed up by us with a name, Conan the Barbarian. Long before Arold Schwarzenegger stole the collective imagination of the character was born from the imagination of Robert E. Howard, his Conan, with covers and comics, depopulated among fans of fantasy. Illustrator, sculptor, painter, Frazetta has died at the age of 82 years due to a heart attack after a long career.
In the seventies, Frazetta created the new covers for the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
(Tarzan) and Robert E. Howard (Conan): revisiting his iconic not only redefined the characteristics of the "sword and sorcery," but it was powerful enough to impose itself even on those established by his predecessors. Hence the beginning of a successful author which gained a following.
Frazetta was born in New York, in Brooklyn, February 9, 1928, to parents of Italian origin. After his debut in comics in the late forties with stories for Western Publishing Ds in the Fifties he signed with stories of publishers such as EC Comics and DC Comics, which dealt with popular series such as "Lil Abner" by Al Capp, helping to cover depicting a series of Buck Rogers, landmark science fiction saga.
He also had a daily strip of his own in 1952-1953, "Johnny Comet" (later renamed
"Ace McCoy"). Its curriculum was enriched in 1953-54 with the strips of "Flash Gordon, in addition to collaboration with the horror of Warren Publishing magazines and implementation for the magazine "Playboy" parodistic of the strip "Little Annie Fanny."
But it was the covers of books in the series "Conan" by 1966 onwards that his name became known to all lovers of fantasy.
His realistic renderings of unearthly scenarios (with half-naked women and warrior attitude
) have made him the ideal candidate to illustrate the album covers of many bands heavy metal: famous for his covers of "Flirtin 'with Disaster" by Molly Hatchet and "Expect No Mercy" of Nazareth. In a short Frazetta became a legendary figure in the paintings and his evaluations reached considerable. In 2009 his oil painting of "Conan the Conqueror", used on the cover of the original 1966 book, was sold for one million dollars. The exorbitant sum was disbursed by Kirk Hammett, the guitarist of Metallica.
His death occurred just as Hollywood is taking on the big screen "Conan the Barbarian" and "John Carter of Mars": Both films are admittedly inspired in design and tone, with illustrations by Frazetta. "Conan the Barbarian" will arrive in 2011, directed by Marcus Nispel, starring Jason Momoa, flanked by Stephen Lang, Rachel Nichols, Ron Perlman, Said Taghmaoui, Leo Howard, Rose McGowan.
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