But perhaps if you did this or that.' But that's about it. 'He'd come and see where I was working, and he might say, 'Very nice, very nice. 'e didn't teach me anything, really,' Frazetta said in 1994. So I went to art school when I was a little kid, and even there the teachers were flipping out.'Īt age eight, Frazetta attended the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts, a small art school run by instructor Michael Falanga. 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 recalled in 2010, a month before his death, The only boy among four children, he spent much time with his grandmother, who began encouraging him in art when he was two years old. The Eighth Wonder / King Kong and Snake - 1976īorn Frank Frazzetta in Brooklyn, New York City, he removed one 'z' from his last name early in his career to make his name seem less 'clumsy'. John Carter and the Savage Apes of Mars - 1971

He was the subject of a 2003 documentary.įrazetta was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1999. Elisa_rolleFrank Frazetta (Febru– May 10, 2010) was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media.

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