Frank wasn’t trying to make pretty-boys. A lot of artists would have done that, to give their Conan a kind of surface desirability, but with Frazetta there was that visceral quality.

In 1966, Frank Frazetta, a successful freelance illustrator, was hired by paperback publisher Lancer Books to render a cover for a collection of fantasy stories by Robert E. Howard.

Frank Frazetta, painter of barbarians and warlocks that made him one of the world’s renowned fantasy illustrators, has died at age 82.

Yesterday the art world bid farewell to one of its most badass and cryptic members when Frank Frazetta died of a stroke at the age of 82. His dark and often gruesome work will be missed. His comic ...

'Conan' painting by the late Frank Frazetta goes for $1.5M Author: cbs8.com Published: 7:39 AM PDT July 22, 2010 Updated: 7:39 AM PDT July 22, 2010 ...

Frank Frazetta was a Pennsylvania artist known for his fantasy paintings and comic book art. A private collector purchased Frazetta's 1971 "Conan the Destroyer" this week for $1.5 million, The ...

Frank Frazetta, an illustrator of comic books, movie posters and paperback book covers whose visions of musclebound men fighting with swords and axes to defend scantily dressed women helped define ...

Frank Frazetta Jr., 52, said he was trying to take his father's $20 million US collection of art to safeguard it from his siblings.

Frazetta was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Feb. 9, 1928. By age 8, he was studying at the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Art.