Fantastic Paintings of Frank Frazetta: A Collection by J. David Spurlock

Robert A. Peinert Jr MD: This compilation replaces ones I lost in a house fire! It has all the images that I wanted to regain. Excellent text and the image reproductions are excellent!

United States on Dec 03, 2023

Der Schakal: Ein schönes Buch mit den wichtigsten Bildern von diesem legendären Künstler. Und das Buch ist wirklich groß.

Germany on Jul 03, 2023

Timothy McLaughlin: Fast delivery and nice product

United States on Apr 30, 2023

Elaine HaygoodElaine Haygood: Powerful. Dramatic. Sexy as all get out. Frazetta's work NEVER fails to beguile, bewitch, and delight.

United States on Mar 19, 2023

Sem dúvida um achado sem igual para qualquer artista.: Presença obrigatória para qualquer artista

Brazil on Feb 04, 2023

Steve Guzelis: This book was first released in 2020 and I purchased the recent second printing. It contains a wealth of beautiful Frazetta paintings displayed as full page images (and some double-page spreads), including original and revised versions, prelim sketches and paperback covers. There are also some incredible ink drawings also included, printed in B&W and sepia.
The reproductions are absolutely breathtaking and the texts accompanying them are informative and entertaining. The introduction by Spurlock covers Frazetta’s career and the afterword by Frank Jr. was a touching tribute to his father.
Five Stars!!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Highly recommended.

United States on Jan 11, 2023

DGRAY: Des ouvrages sur l'immense artiste qu'était Frank Frazetta ne manque pas et sont légion incontestablement, Alors à quoi ça sert de sauter sur un nouveau livre du maître incontesté de l'illustration Fantasy ? Ce livre a plusieurs qualités qui font que j'invite tout fan de l'artiste a faire cet investissement pour profiter une fois de plus des superbes peintures du maestro.
Tout d'abord la qualité exceptionnel du livre, couverture avec un vernis sélectif, superbe papier, format, impression magnifique qui permet de profiter pleinement des couleurs, des détails, du travail de Frazetta.
Le prix est plus qu'honnête, profitez-en rapidement parce que malheureusement bientôt il risque de se retrouver à des prix moins abordables (merci les spéculateurs)...
J'ai offert cet ouvrage a un ami, grand fan de l'artiste et il avait beau connaître le travail de F.Frazetta par coeur il a dit cette phrase qui résume tout :" j'ai l'impression de découvrir cet artiste comme si c'était la première fois". ça veut tout dire !
L'autre qualité qui démarque le livre d'autres titres, c'est qu'il y a donc plusieurs de ses peintures les plus célèbres avec leur finalité, c a d...

France on Apr 18, 2021

fjvidiella: Entre 1975 y 1985, Ballantine Books publicó cinco volúmenes bajo el título de The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta que popularizaron hasta extremos insospechados -en los USA, claro- el arte del maestro de Brooklyn y sentaron las bases de cómo han interpretado la fantasía heroica y la espada y brujería todos los ilustradores que han venido después. Con The Fantastic Paintings of Frank Frazetta, J. David Spurlock, un tipo que lleva muchos años dedicado a estudiar y divulgar la obra del artista, ha querido realizar una revisión y puesta al día de The Fantastic Art... El resultado merece muy mucho la pena. Un volumen en tapa dura y a gran formato (el mayor utilizado para un libro de Frazzeta hasta la fecha) que recoge muchas de sus pinturas más icónicas, otras nunca vistas, bocetos, versiones... En fin, compra obligada para todo aficionado a Frazzeta o al arte fantástico en general. Ojalá sea sólo el primero de varios y llegue al menos a los cinco de la publicación en la que se basa.

Spain on Nov 29, 2020

sw: Beautiful Book with lovely full page and some double page spreads but please be aware that my copy was missing 4 Pages!. It goes from 104/105 to 110/111 missing 106/107 & 108/109. Hopefully, just a one off but please check your Books to make sure yours is not the same. I have informed my supplier and I hope to get a perfect copy, this is a really nice addition to my (quite extensive) collection of Frazetta Books.
Update to my original review, just found this comment on-line. NOTE: "A few pages towards the end of the FANTASTIC FRAZETTA BOOK are mis-numbered. It is simple printing error there are NO missing pages". Well, first of all I'm glad to have discovered this. The publishers should really be obliged to make this fact more widely known. Still a great Book and very glad to own it, obviously just 4 pages shorter than advertised!

United Kingdom on Aug 17, 2020

Genevieve FraserGenevieve Fraser: By Genevieve Fraser
Frank Frazetta, long considered to be the “Godfather” of fantasy and science fiction art, is presented through biographical and career vignettes and a stella collection of his original paintings, sketches, comic illustrations, magazine covers and posters in J. David Spurlock’s lavishly muscular, voluptuous and intensely sensual Vanguard publication, “Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta,” The contents include commentary by editor J. David Spurlock, Michael Whelan, one of the premiere painters of imaginative realism, and by the artist’s son, Frank Frazetta, Jr.
According to Spurlock, “Vanguard was the first to launch a series of popular artist sketchbooks which included the Frazetta Sketchbooks which were planned shortly before the artist’s passing. The collection is brimming with rare and previously unpublished drawings and painting preliminaries of the subjects Frazetta is best remembered for including barbarians, wild beasts, Tarzan, buxom beauties, monsters and Conan.”

Along with “Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta,” Vanguard has published “The Sensuous Frazetta,” the “Complete Frazetta White Indian,” “Frazetta: The...

United States on Aug 16, 2020