FRAZETTA SKETCHBOOK, THE

In the revolutionary artist's extensive, May 10, 2010 obituary, The New York Times said, ‘‘Frazetta helped define comic book (and) fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars signature images were of strikingly fierce, hard-bodied heroes and bosomy, callipygian damsels’’ Frazetta took the sex and violence of the pulp fiction of his youth and added even more action, fantasy and potentcy, but rendered his works with a panache seldom seen outside of Fine Art. Despite his sword-and-sorcery, science-fiction and fantasy subject matter, the quality of the work has not only drawn comparisons to the most brilliant of illustrators, Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, J. Allen St.John, and Joseph Clement Coll but even to the most brilliant of fine artists including Rembrandt and Michelangelo’ and major Frazetta works sell for Fine Art prices. The November 24, 2003 Forbes magazine article Schwarzenegger's Sargent led with the line, ‘‘Which artist helped make Arnold governor? Frank Frazetta, the Rembrandt of barbarians.’’