Frazetta NINA Sunday Comic Strip Tryout 1950s
Artist: Frank Frazetta (All)
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Frazetta NINA Sunday Comic Strip Tryout 1950s
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DescriptionWhat we have here is Frank's tryout for a proposed Sunday strip he called 'Nina'. The strip went unsold, sadly, and the world never got a Sunday strip that would have rivaled or bettered Raymond's Flash Gordon. I believe Frank did two pages. In the 1970s, Ellie decided to cut the pages up and sell them off separately, a ridiculous idea. Some were sold, making it impossible to reassemble the second page. When I came onboard, I told Frank I wanted to buy, and reassemble one page as he originally conceived and he was very pleased with the idea. 'She never should have cut them up, can you imagine that!" he said. I had them professionally reassembled, cleaned, and backed. Finally, Doc Dave told me that Frank's Beauty and the Beast drawing was originally done as a topper for this strip. I had a signed, vintage PRINT of Beauty and the Beast, and it fit perfectly over my original art. Each of these panels have been published in various books and fanzines over the years. But here it is, for the first time-- The first tryout page as it would have looked published, as conceived by the master.Social/Sharing |
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Rich Cirillo 
Member Since 2004
Posted on 12/1/2011
I always loved this piece from the first time I saw it in one of Frank's books! The detail of each panel is unrivaled! I hope (dream) I can own something this beautifully rendered one day!
Mark Levy
Member Since 2004
Posted on 12/1/2011
Thanks for re-assembling and re-posting - truly gorgeous! For the other visitors, the additional image is better than the main (at least when I made this comment!)
Tom Coker
Member Since 2005
Posted on 12/1/2011
Rob, this is truly one of Frazetta's very best comic works. Well done with restoring to its intended configuration.
Frank L
Member Since 2008
Posted on 12/2/2011
Collectors, like you, are the reason why art survives. Often, artists, in this case a wife, do not see/have the same value in the work. Lovely work by the master, Frazetta.
Timothy Finney
Member Since 2006
Posted on 12/2/2011
I commend you on your knowledge and your ability to accomplish this wonderful reconstruction as much as your acquisition. And, Lord, it looks beautiful. It's like a walk through a dreamscape.
DocDave Winiewicz
Member Since 2005
Posted on 12/2/2011
Ben Friedman wrote:
Utterly fantastic . . . I am speechless.So right! I absolutely love this sequence. Just think about what a strip this would have made in the newspapers. How could any SANE art editor turn it down?? The art world is fundamentally irrational. By the way I found a picture of the lost final panel to this series and I'll be posting it on my FF site. Congrats Rob! Fabulous job. DAVE
Eric F
Member Since 2009
Posted on 12/2/2011
Wowww... What a wonderful piece. Another superb art to your collection. Bravo !
Johnny C.
Member Since 2010
Posted on 12/5/2011
Stunning! Putting "Beauty and the Beast" at the top puts that piece in a whole new perspective and gives us an idea as to what the Sunday strip may have been about! Incredible job, Rob!
Mark Tomlinson
Member Since 2004
Posted on 12/30/2011
Stunning piece Rob! Would have loved to have seen what this strip could have been had it been picked up. It also looks terrific framed.
Mark Yanko
Member Since 2009
Posted on 2/6/2012
Isn't that all just mind-blowing, that something this incredible remained unsold as a syndicated strip, that she would even thinking of cutting up such sheer beauty, that you would ever be able to put it together years later, Rob, that the hand of man could create such a wonderful, wonderful page of Art with a capital "A." This page is just breathtaking, and so is the story you've posted with it, really.
artless artmore
Member Since 2013
Posted on 11/13/2013
This is just too good. Absolutely amazing to see it restored and reassembled.
Andy Robbins
Member Since 2003
Posted on 11/19/2013
You have so many giants in your collection, and this one can hold its own next to any of them. I would've loved to have seen a pic of it and the Nemo on the wall next to each other.
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