I doubt I'm telling you anything you don't know but...
Frank Frazetta
is a comic book artist. Or at least he started as one. He started out as an art assistant on the
Li'l Abner comic strip (as I recall,
his first professional work was winning a contest to come up with the ugliest face for a character in the strip whose face had previously never been shown.)
Frazetta also did work for the E.C. books, particularly WEIRD SCIENCE and WEIRD FANTASY, and the combined later
WEIRD SCIENCE-FANTASY.
Throughout the 60's and 70s (in addition to becoming famous doing the covers for new editions of the books of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard)
Frazetta did many covers for CREEPY and EERIE magazines, and the first issue of EPIC ILLUSTRATED in 1980.
I also have a portfolio that collects nice poster-size prints of the Buck Rogers covers Frazetta did in the 1950s for
FAMOUS FUNNIES 209-216 in
1953-1954 (portfolio released in the mid 70's by Russ Cochran)
Frazetta is for me one of the best artists ever to come out of comics. But he is a comic book artist, and has a sizeable body of work in the comic book field.
Frazetta is also one of the grandmasters of a movement in comics I like to term "comic book fine art", along with
guys like Lou Fine, Jack Cole, L.B. Cole, Reed Crandall, Al Williamson, Berni Wrightson, Michael Kaluta, Barry Windsor-Smith, Jeff Jones, Jim Steranko,
Neal Adams, Michael Golden, and a select few others.
