Remembering Frank Frazetta and Dick Giordano - iFanboy

The comics industry recently lost two legends: Frank Frazetta (Conan) and Dick Giordano (DC Comics). Both were amazing artists and huge influences to creators and the comics industry alike. They may be gone, but their art lives on.

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[fajfred]

I was given the name Frazette at birth so I needed to learn who I was named after. My uncle use to bunk down every night in the Korean war reading Frazetta's comic strips and vowed that if he ever had a daughter he was going to name her Frazetta. Well...I was born 10 months before my uncle had a daughter so my mom swiped the name. dropped the " a " and added an "e" at the end.

[tavokoti]

@fajfred Nice story :)

[theshadow1932]

The strip in Witzend was an old newspaper spec piece that he did, at least a decade earlier. It was NOT new work.

[liveecarbme]

Out of the 3 the dude in the striped shirt is a douche-obviously doesn't comprehend ANYthing the other two are talking about and shoul dget off the f-ing couch-he is an annoying distraction-Shut the fuck up dude.

[westeightyone]

@EdMahoney19

He didn't say that Kubert entered art school at 12. He said that Kubert started working in a ' sweat shop' at 12.

A sweat shop was a studio of artists who turned out comic book pages. Irv Novick and Lou Fine were two of the artists who helped and encouraged the much younger Kubert in the sweat shop. Frank Frazetta started working in a sweat shop studio when he was 15.

The 'jew' in this video was only making a joke about Frazetta starting his comics career a bit late at 15.

[EdMahoney19]

Notice the jew had to mention Kubert entered art school at 12. Frazetta was still only 6 when he went into art school.

[hulkster46a]

@VicRules666 Pity, I always wanted too go and see his work. And maybe take my son, when he was older.

[hulkster46a]

You failed too mention that Frazetta had a thyroid condition which inhibited his creativity. And that he also had a series of strokes. He learned how too paint again, using his left hand. Quite and accomplishment. Look for the documentary, Painting with Fire. I got that one with Fire and Ice. I still remember my hs art teacher saying that Frazetta wasn't an artist my teacher's idea of art was cowboys and horses, not Conan and dragons, ect.

[hulkster46a]

Yeah the painting of Conan on 5:15 is one of Boris, Not Frazetta. Get it straight guys. Two different artists with two different methods.