This was an animated movie that had incorporated art that was inspired by Frazetta’s style. the artist’s final movie poster was for Fire and Ice (1983). However, he did create the now iconic poster for The Gauntlet (1977). A notable exception was the poster he created for The Fearless Vampire Killers starring Sharon Tate.įrazetta’s poster output for movies dropped considerably in the 1970s. The majority of his movie posters from the 1960s were for comedy movies, including What’s New Pussycat? (1965), The Secret of my Success (1965), and After the Fox (1966).
In 1964, a painting Frazetta did of Ringo Starr for Mad magazine caught the attention of United Artists. Spoof ad featuring Ringo Starr from Mad magazine (1964) by Frank Frazetta. Kelly had a keen business sense, and would be instrumental in convincing Frank to retain his art work, rather than letting publishers hold the rights to them. They would go on to have four children together, two boys and two girls. In 1956 Frazetta married Eleanor Kelly in New York City. He worked on the Li’l Abner daily strip, from 1952 until 1961. Some of the notable characters Frazetta worked on during this time included Li’L Abner, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers. L’il Abner artwork circa 1955 by Al Capp and Frank Frazetta. As well as historical dramas, for companies such as EC Comics and National Comics. This included funny animals, Westerns, science-fiction. The artist drew comic book stories in a variety of genres. Frazetta’s career began to take off and through the rest of the 1940s and into the 1950s. In 1947, Frazetta received the notice of comic book artist Graham Ingels, who arranged a job for Frazetta at Standard Comics. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that’s what I wanted to do.” – Frank Frazetta “By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. The work produced out of this studio included entries into the super-hero genre with Hourman, and The Spectre. When Frazetta turned 16 in 1944, the aspiring artist began to work as an artist for comic book illustrator Bernard Bailey at his art studio. In 1936, at the age of only eight years old, Frazetta began to study art at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts. So I went to art school when I was a little kid, and even there the teachers were flipping out.” – Frank Frazetta Frank Frazetta self portrait. I remember the teachers were always mesmerized by what I was doing, so it was hard to learn anything from them. As I got older, I started drawing some pretty wild things for my age.
Sometimes I had nothing left to draw on but toilet paper. “When I drew something, she would be the one to say it was wonderful and would give me a penny to keep going. He was encouraged by his grandmother – who helped raise him and his 3 sisters – in all artistic ventures he pursued, beginning at the age of 2 years old. Early Life Clint Eastwood and Frank Frazetta with the original painting used as the poster for The Gauntlet (1977)įrank Frazetta was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 9, 1928.
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