# Frazetta: World's Best Comics Cover Artist: DLX (Definitive Reference) - Hardcover

by **J. David Spurlock** (Author), **Frank Frazetta** (Illustrator)

**Vanguard continues their trademark Definitive Reference series with _Frazetta: World's Best Comics Cover Artist_, a sister book to 2022's hit, _Frazetta Book Cover Art_.**

While the prior book by illustration and cartooning historian J. David Spurlock catalogued, documented, and commented on all of Frazetta's book cover paintings, this new volume focuses on the artist's comics magazine cover art, which originally appeared on such periodicals as _Creepy_ magazine, _Ghost Rider_, _Mad_ magazine, _Vampirella_, _National Lampoon_ and EC Comics' _Weird Science-Fantasy_.  

### Author Biography

**J. David Spurlock** is an  
award-winning author, historian, educator, advocate for artists' rights,  
documentary filmmaker, and associate to star talents Frazetta, Basil  
Gogos, Neal Adams, Steranko, Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Julius  
Schwartz, Wally Wood, and many more. Spurlock's book _How to Draw Chiller Monsters_,  
for Random House, rose as high as #18 on the Bookspan best-seller  
list. Spurlock's IPPY Award-winning book, Alluring Art of Margaret  
Brundage, has been universally acclaimed including by MTV and by the  
Village Voice who proclaimed it one of The Best of 2013. His guest  
speaking engagements include many San Diego Comic-Con presentations,  
2013 WorldCon (various lecture panels including on Robert E. Howard,  
Copyright Law, and on Margaret Brundage); with Stan Lee for Dragon Con  
TV and a live audience if 4,600; The Famous Monsters of Filmland  
magazine re-launch convention; the Frank Frazetta tribute event at  
the San Diego Comic-Con; Rutgers School of Law; and University of the  
Arts in Philadelphia.

  

According to the _New York Times_, **Frank Frazetta**  
"helped define fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of  
Mars with signature images of strikingly fierce, hard-bodied heroes and  
bosomy, callipygian damsels." Frazetta took the sex and violence of the  
pulp fiction of his youth and added even more action, fantasy, and  
potency, but rendered with a panache seldom seen outside of major works  
of fine art. His work has drawn comparisons to illustrators Maxfield  
Parrish, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, and N.C. Wyeth as well as  
fine artists like Rembrandt and Michelangelo. Frazetta works sell for  
millions of dollars and his work has inspired generations of artists,  
movies, and directors including the Conan films, the _Lord of the Rings_ trilogy, the films of Robert Rodriguez, the epic, award-winning Game of Thrones series, Tim Burton's _Sleepy Hollow_, Disney's animated Tarzan films, Francis Ford Coppola's _Apocalypse Now_ and George Lucas' _Star Wars_ series.

**Number of Pages:** 208

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 11.5 x 8.7 IN

**Publication Date:** March 12, 2024

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