{"id":2199,"date":"2010-05-15T08:08:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T08:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/frank-frazetta-renowned-fantasy-artist-dies-at-82\/"},"modified":"2010-05-15T08:08:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T08:08:35","slug":"frank-frazetta-renowned-fantasy-artist-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/frank-frazetta-renowned-fantasy-artist-dies-at-82.php","title":{"rendered":"Frank Frazetta, Renowned Fantasy Artist,  Dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisticanatomyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/artistic_anatomy_blog_frank_frazetta_01.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album-2559];player=img;\" title=\"artistic_anatomy_blog_frank_frazetta_01\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/04ef1_artistic_anatomy_blog_frank_frazetta_01-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisticanatomyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/artistic_anatomy_blog_frank_frazetta_02.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album-2559];player=img;\" title=\"artistic_anatomy_blog_frank_frazetta_02\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/23b05_artistic_anatomy_blog_frank_frazetta_02-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisticanatomyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/artistic_anatomy_blog_frank_frazetta_03.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album-2559];player=img;\" title=\"artistic_anatomy_blog_frank_frazetta_03\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/23b05_artistic_anatomy_blog_frank_frazetta_03-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Frank Frazetta, 82, the celebrated comic artist and illustrator whose  ax-wielding muscular warriors, scantily clad heroines and ferocious  beasts of prey graced numerous science fiction and fantasy novels, died  May 10 at a hospital in Fort Myers, Fla., after a stroke.<\/p><p>Mr. Frazetta, who started as a pencil-and-ink comic book artist, painted  movie posters and rock album covers, but he was perhaps best known for  the cover illustrations to the paperback reissues of Robert E. Howard&rsquo;s  Conan the Barbarian series and Edgar Rice Burroughs&rsquo;s Tarzan and  Pellucidar series.<\/p><p>Mr. Frazetta&rsquo;s drawings were credited with renewing the popularity of  the character, a mainstay of the 1930s pulp magazine Weird Tales. He  helped define the illustration style for the fantasy sub-genre known as  &ldquo;sword and sorcery.&rdquo;<\/p><p>Describing Mr. Frazetta&rsquo;s bold, sexually charged style, the author  Donald Newlove wrote in 1977, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no love of decay and fetidness &mdash;  his swamps and jungles are soft green, lush, aswirl and gently vivid,  germinal . . . a perfect setting for the erotic.&rdquo;<\/p><p>Mr. Frazetta was one of the first artists in paperbacks and comics to  negotiate the ownership of his artwork &mdash; a move that worked out well  for him. The cover painting for a 1966 Lancer books edition of &ldquo;Conan  the Conqueror&rdquo; sold for $1 million in a 2009 auction.<\/p><p>Although he left comics work in the 1960s, his later paintings  influenced such artists as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbenstudios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Corben of Heavy Metal magazine<\/a> and anticipated a  trend toward painted graphic novels.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\" target=\"_blank\">Original article found here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Frazetta, 82, the celebrated comic artist and illustrator whose ax-wielding muscular warriors, scantily clad heroines and ferocious beasts of prey graced numerous science fiction and fantasy novels, died May 10 at a hospital in Fort Myers, Fla., after a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/frank-frazetta-renowned-fantasy-artist-dies-at-82.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[577281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anatomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}