Paul Herman writes: >I think everyone is giving Frazetta a little more credit than due. And >understand, he is my absolutely favorite contemporary artist, bar none. But >if Frazetta affected people's tastes in books, then every author he did >artwork for would have had a boom, above and beyond the general level of >boom-ness of the 60s and fantasy. The obvious example is the pure pastiche >volumes of Conan he did the artwork for. Everyone loves the art, but it was >not responsible for turning Carter or DeCamp suddenly into wildly successful >authors, bringing in scads of new fans to them. Best I can tell, it had no >effect at all.
You're assiming that all Frazetta artwork was created equal. It wasn't. The cover for CONAN THE BUCCANEER wouldn't have grabbed much attention. But CONAN THE ADVENTURER, or CONAN, or CONAN OF CIMMERIA have so much power in them that the literally grab your eye. Likewise this cover for Moorcock's THE SILVER WARRIORS (if I recall the name correctly). The Frazetta cover made me buy this and (over 20 years later) I've yet to read it! For whatever reason, Frazetta was inspired to some of his best work when doing many of Conan covers. -- David Gentzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pobox.com/~gentzel/
