He points out that Frazetta has no intellectual pretensions and that his earthy, forceful art style is out of sync with the intellectual critics who get to define what Fine Art is in America. This is the longest article about Frazetta to appear in a magazine not related to comic books. He is however the greatest artist in the world who ever worked in comic books. Eleven pages with several Frazetta paintings and sketches.įrank Frazetta isn’t the greatest comic book artist in the world. “The Incredible Paintings of Frank Frazetta” by Donald Newlove. A few mouse clicks on eBay could have many of these magazines on your doorstep in a few days. In this Internet age finding old magazines isn’t as hard as it used to be. The articles and interviews reviewed below give enough brief information to help you decide if you want to locate the magazine to read the entire piece. You may have to hide them from your wife or girlfriend the same way you hid your comics from your parents or school teachers when you were a kid. Like comic books used to be, girlie magazines today are a subculture outside of mainstream society and are held in contempt and disfavor by much of that society. I picked this genre for a reason that any comic book collector over age 40 would appreciate.
They are adult magazines, or in the trade jargon, “girlie” magazines. With the exception of Saga and Esquire all of the magazines reviewed below are from a specific genre. Articles about old comic books are scattered all over many different types of magazines and I can’t cover them all. All of the articles I’ve reviewed here have obscure facts or rare artwork not always available in the regular comic book hobby magazines.
Granted, many such articles are frivolous and misinformed but not all of them are. I also think its fun to read about old comic books and their creators in other magazines to see what the rest of the world thinks about our hobby. Many Silver Age comic book collectors enjoy reading articles about old comic books in the specialty magazines devoted to the subject.
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