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Becoming Frazetta Now for Sale

Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Presenting: Becoming Frazetta by comic historian, publisher, and writer Michael Finn (The Liberty Brigade), with an introduction by Sara Frazetta of Frazetta Girls, art analysis by Mark Schultz (Xenozoic Tales), and a foreword by Joe Mannarino of Heritage Auctions.
 
Before Frank Frazetta became a legend, he was simply a Brooklyn kid with a pencil and a dream. Becoming Frazetta is the first book to uncover how he grew into the iconic fantasy painter we celebrate today.
 
Created in collaboration with Frazetta Girls and Sara Frazetta, and drawing on unprecedented access to the Frazetta family and the archives of Bernard Baily’s publishing company, this biography reveals dozens of unpublished pages Frank drew as a teenager. Included are more than fifty pages of art for what would have been his first published solo stories had the company not gone bankrupt.

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Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta (2/9/1928 - 5/10/2010) is arguably the most beloved Fantasy and Science fiction artist of the 20th Century. He is best known for his lush paintings, his work in Comic books, book covers, movie posters and record album covers. Frazetta's earliest work was with comics, from funny animal comics to EC Comics, National Comics, Avon and others. During this period he collaborated a lot with Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel. During this period Frank worked on Buck Rogers cover for Famous Funnies, the Lil Abner comic strip with Al Capp, his own Johnny Comet strip, the Flash Gordon daily with Dan Barry, and Little Annie Fanny for Playboy with Harvey Kurtzman. In the 1960's 70's and 80's Frazetta was at the height of his career, painting movie posters for Hollywood and many Tarzan, Conan, and John Carter Warlord of Mars book covers. During this peak period he also worked in the comic magazines of Eerie, Creepy, and Vampirella. His 1983 animation feature Fire and Ice was his only foray into moving pictures. Recently a series of strokes and various other health problems have slowed his ability to draw and paint as well as he once did. He and his wife Ellie maintain a small museum of his work in Pennsylvania, and reproductions of his work are still available via Frank Frazetta's official website. A 2003 film documentary on his life was entitled Frank Frazetta: Painting with Fire. Many artists including Simon Bisley and Boris Vallejo were influenced by Frank Frazetta.