The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta. 40th Ed. av Dan Nadel, Zak Smith

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<p>Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the years since his death. With his <strong>paintings now breaking auction records</strong> (<em>Egyptian Quee</em>n 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 <strong>the infamous EC Comics</strong>, then to oils for <strong>Tarzan and Conan pulp covers</strong>. 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