{"product_id":"the-fantastic-worlds-of-frank-frazetta-xl","title":"The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta (XL)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eFrank Frazetta has been the undisputed master of fantasy art for 50 years, and his fame has steadily grown in the 12 years since his death. His paintings are now breaking auction records: his work \u003cem\u003eEgyptian Queen\u003c\/em\u003e was just sold for $5.4 million. For that reason alone, it was high time to produce this definitive monograph about him.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eFrank Frazetta was born in 1928 in Brooklyn to a Sicilian family. He was a professional baseball player in the American league, a small-time criminal, and a notorious seducer with the looks of a movie star and extraordinary talent. He claimed he only devoted himself to art when there was nothing better to do, he preferred playing baseball, yet he began his career as a professional comic artist at just 16. His commissions took him to the notorious EC Comics, then to oil paintings for the \u003cem\u003eTarzan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eConan\u003c\/em\u003e series. Both characters had been depicted by many before him, but as he explained in the 1970s: “I’m very body-focused. In Brooklyn I knew Conan, I knew guys who were exactly like him.” He used that familiarity with muscle and machismo to draw fantasy heroes as even bigger, more threatening, and more testosterone-driven.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eAs a counterweight, he invented a new species of women, as naked as censorship allowed, with elfin faces and childbearing bodies: thick thighs, full backsides, breasts thrust forward. And yet he rendered them with convincing realism, with soft bellies and signs of cellulite. Add action, fantasy creatures, dim worlds of hunting shadows, and Frazetta’s art becomes as addictive as potato chips.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mb-1 mt-2 whitespace-pre-line leading-relaxed first:mt-0\" data-sentry-component=\"P\" data-sentry-source-file=\"p.tsx\"\u003eThis monograph is the most detailed and comprehensive ever assembled on Frank Frazetta, created in collaboration with the Frazetta family and the most important collectors.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cedar Leaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45403368521772,"sku":"9783836579216","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0697\/2234\/1420\/files\/9783836579216.jpg?v=1774306337","url":"https:\/\/cedarleafbooks.com\/products\/the-fantastic-worlds-of-frank-frazetta-xl","provider":"Cedar Leaf Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}