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Telling Stories: The Classic Comic Art of Frank Frazetta | 
 enlarge | Author: Frank Frazetta
Creator: Edward Mason
Publisher: Underwood Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 152731
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 12.6 x 9.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 1599290200
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781599290201
ASIN: 1599290200
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Product Description
Fantasy art's most popular painter was also one of the most popular comic book illustrators during the industry’s golden age. Telling Stories: The Classic Comic Art of Frank Frazetta celebrates the rare and largely forgotten stories created five decades ago by this iconic artist. These jungle adventures, true-life tales of heroism, and dreamy love stories not only exhibit the skill of a master craftsman but also provide tantalizing glimpses of where the young artist’s career would ultimately take him.
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 Who Is Edward Mason and Why Did He Get to Choose? December 22, 2008
I give this 4 stars only because of Frazetta's work inside; I've always preferred his comic work to his more famous paintings. By 1954, no other comic book inker was even fit to clean his brushes!
But why was someone who is obviously not a fan or scholar given the privilege of choosing the content? As already observed, several of his best covers are missing, and the lesser choices are puzzling! Why so many of those Korean War stories with the heavy-handed brush work? They're all interesting, but several Dan Brand/White Indian stories would've been far better; "River Gauntlet" would've been a far better choice than the one Dan Brand story featured, as it showcases Frazetta's underappreciated story-telling ability. A volume 2 seems unlikely, since all of the major classics were included here.
I was really hoping that some unpublished comic art would've made it; the splash from what must've been his last story for Heroic Comics was shown, postage stamp size, in one of Jerry Weist's books on original art, and looked positively awesome, but the editor apparently made no attempt to find anything special like that.
Finally, some of the art looks a bit "Theakstonized," and as for the coloring, I'll bet the publisher was not even aware that Frazetta originally colored his final romance masterpiece "Untamed Love" when it was published, but that color scheme appears not to even have been consulted.
The book is worth having if this is all we're ever going to get, but like all those books edited by the Fenners, with their tiny reproductions of choice works, it's a frustrating exercise in what could have been, had only someone who really loved and knew the history of Frazetta's comics career been put in charge. Let's just hope that the definitive book is still in our future.
 Telling Stories: The Art of Frank Frazetta October 30, 2008
I've been collecting Frazetta art since the 1950s and this is the best retrospective of his BEST art that I've ever seen. Ed Lane
Frazetta -- Master Artist AND Storyteller October 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Most "fans" of Frank Frazetta's career heap praise on his masterful illustrations and rightly so. What I enjoyed MOST about this book was its' focus on Frank's skills as storyteller. I was SURPRISED at his skillful plotting and dialogue in these selected works.
This book has left me a more rounded "fan" of his career, not only for his masterful illustrations, but his skillful storytelling.
Every "fan" of Frazetta should add this book to their libraries if they really want to round out ALL that makes Frazetta a true master.
There'd better be a volume 2 coming... September 16, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
There is a lot of great stuff in here, but there is so much missing! We only get 3 full page pics of the 7 Buck Rogers covers, besides the slipcase cover, which is obscured by a logo and cropped, and a tiny thumb of another one. We get 5 of the 6 Ghost Rider covers, but all are thumbnail size, 3" by 2". That's just too small to appreciate all the detail. And there are many classic stories missing. Like "Last Chance!" from Witzend and the story from Creepy #1 (of which we only get 1 pg). We also only get 1 page of his work on "Little Annie Fanny" for playboy, and I'm sure there are many more stories missing.
On the plus side though, there is much in here that is amazing which I've never seen before. We get many complete issues of his best stories, like his Romance tales and the full 1st issue of Thun'da. The art is printed on very high quality paper: very thick and glossy. We even get a page separator strip. The new coloring is very nice and doesn't obscure the penwork at all by being too dark. I'm glad they didn't try any PC color alterations of the African savages. The essayist does condemn Frazetta for the racism in some of his images, but the art remains untampered with.
But I don't see how they can find room for a full page of a Jack Kirby Capt. America sketch, and not include all the Buck Rogers and Ghost Rider covers, which to me form the cornerstone of Frazetta's comic work.
I also question the quality of the source material for "A Love of My Own." It seems to have originally been done in pencil with color on top, but the pages look like they've been copied into black ink line so it causes a lot of broken feathering lines. I figured this by looking at pg 8 of the story which is in the original pencil and it looks so beautiful! Luckily I didn't notice this with any of the other stories.
So for me, this is definitely worth the money. I don't regret buying it at all. But I think there is much more great Frazetta comic work out there which I feel should have been included.
Saw advanced copy at san diego comic con August 26, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is flat out AMAZING...saw this at bud plant,s booth at san diego comic con and asked them to take it out of the showcase and let me look at it, first rate all the way...just knocked me off my feet, great printing, amazing color...but the material is just priceless, I have the three fritz art books...but this one takes the cake...I just cant believe the price as you know the limited frit edtions were 4 times the price..easily the best buy of the year for thirty sum bucks. This comes with a book slip case also and then on the cover is one the greatest scfi covers fritz ever did which is different than what you see on this website, they could of produced the cover you see twice...I told you this is first rate...I would paid 100 bucks for that copy on the spot in a new york minute but they only had one and turned me down when I tried to buy it, keep you expecations high and you wont be disappointed, I did not think that they could come out with any classic book on fritz since the three great art books covered a lot material...I am gald I was wrong...five stars all the way
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