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The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta

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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. His high energy oils of Tarzan, Conan, Vampirella and his signature Death Dealer define not just fantasy worlds, but the bodies that occupy them: fleshy, muscular, tactile and sensual. Winner of the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection.

Collector’s Edition of 1,000 numbered copies

Frank Frazetta: Hold and Release

Edition of 1,000Aluminum print cover tipped into a vegan leather-bound spine, foil embossing, and housed in a velvet slipcase, 29 x 39.5 cm, 5,06 kg, 468 pages

“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

“…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
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The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta

The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta

600

All Hail the King of Fantasy Art

Frank Frazetta finally gets the big beautiful book he deserves

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 and winner of the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection.

Collector’s Edition of 1,000 numbered copies
The authors

Dan Nadel is curator-at-large for the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, and a contributor to the New York Review of Books and Artforum. Nadel’s books and exhibitions include Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence 1945–1976 (2020), Chicago Comics, 1960s to Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2021), and the forthcoming biography of Robert Crumb (Scribner, 2024). He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Zak Smith is an artist whose work is included in several public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Saatchi Gallery, London; and The Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the author of several books, writes a regular column for Artillery magazine and lives and works in Los Angeles.

The editor

Dian Hanson is a senior editor and writer for TASCHEN, with over 50 books to her credit. In addition to ARNOLD, her recent works include The Art of Pin-up, Masterpieces of Fantasy Art, and The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta.
Read here how it all began.

The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta
Edition of 1,000Aluminum print cover tipped into a vegan leather-bound spine, foil embossing, and housed in a velvet slipcase, 29 x 39.5 cm, 5,06 kg, 468 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-9422-6

Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German)
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Best book ever on Frazetta!

Antonio V.,June 25, 2023
Well overdue deluxe book on one of the greatest fantasy artist of all time. The deluxe cover of the book is out of this world. A must have for every Frazetta fan.