Frank Frazetta, Book Two

The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta #2

by Frank Frazetta

Twelve black and white studies and thirty two magnificent color plates in this book, Frank Frazzetta proves his pre eminence in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction art.

Genres: Art, Fantasy

Paperback

First published February 4, 1977

About the author

Frank Frazetta was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, record-album covers and other media. He was the subject of a 2003 documentary.

* Complete list of his book covers.

Reviews

[Little Timmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

No artist captures my attention and imagination like Frank Frazetta. HE was one of the first artists I could recognize and know on sight as a young reader. His action and dark moody paintings have always been at the heart of my mind's eye when I picture fantasy heroes when i read. My highest recommendation

[Philip · Rating 4 out of 5]

How can you not love this book? The cover painting alone is the goddam album art for Molly Hatchett's "Flirtin' With Disaster" - you don't get much more awesome than that!!

Otherwise, just a continuation of the mind-blowing "Middle Earth meets John Carter" stuff found in The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta, which served as the inspiration for uncounted 70's teen fantasies. Sure, actually living in that universe would probably suck...but what adolescent male wouldn't want to find out for himself?

Oh yeah, and there's like an article or something too, aside from the pictures.

And if you haven't heard this in a while, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci3af... ...

[Tobin Elliott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Volume two of Frazetta's stunning work. His stuff is simply magical. There's such dynamic movement in these images. But it's also the colour palette, and the slightly indistinct faces that allow the viewer to read into them, to imagine them in all their fearsome evil, or incredible beauty.

Frazetta's in a category all his own.

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this guys work. I fell in love with it as a teenager in the 70s and am still enthralled.

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Picked this up second hand and glad that I did. Full of Frank Frazetta classic art including the iconic covers and some of the interiors for Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter/Barsoom series. Also collects some of the cover art from the Conan books and a whole lot more, including a few up close detail shots. It's old, but if you're a fan of Frazetta's work I'd totally recommend hunting this art book down.

[MB Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

My favorite painting in volume 2 is from the Science Fiction Book Club edition of A Princess of Mars. It was Frazetta's wrap-around cover for The Gods of Mars/The Warlord of Mars that first got me interested in Burrough's John Carter of Mars.

[Elijah Meeks · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good collection of FF's early work, I'd recommend it if you see it at a good price at your used book store (like I did).

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

More of Frazetta's great early work. Lots of paintings from Edgar Rice Burroughs paperbacks.