Book Description
The fifth volume in the acclaimed Comics Journal Library series celebrates four of the great all-time comic book artists. Frank Frazetta, Burne Hogarth, Mark Schultz and Dave Stevens are the modern masters of illustration, here collected in their own words under one gorgeous, wrap-around cover. Together this fifth volume of the acclaimed Comics Journal Library series, these artists bridge almost 70 years of comics and fantasy art tied to tradition, craft, and an emphasis on the human form. Frank Frazetta is unquestionably the preeminent fantasy and science fiction painter and illustrator of the second half of the 20th century. He began his career in comics, and from there he revolutionized the paperback cover aesthetic with his paintings that graced the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, and other sword & sorcery and fantasy authors. In his longest and last great discussion recorded for posterity, the painter and cultural touchstone throws down the gauntlet to interviewer Gary Groth and a generation of adventure painter wannabes. Burne Hogarth is well known as the visionary illustrator of the Sunday Tarzan series from 1939 to 1950, and the innovative educator who founded New York's school of Visual Arts in 1947. His educational books —Dynamic Anatomy, Dynamic Light & Shade, etc.— have become staples of colleges and universities all over the world. Hogarth gives one of the most charged interviews by any artist in any art form over the last 30 years, passionately and decisively explicating the value of great art and the moral foundations upon which all great art rests. The Great Comics Illustrators is also proud to present extensive interviews with two next generation artists who continued the tradition of men like Hogarth and Frazetta into well-known entertainment properties - Mark Schultz (Cadillacs and Dinosaurs) and Dave Stevens (The Rocketeer), both men caught at the apex of their respective work's influence within the field and providing an altogether different set of perspectives on great art's role in great comics. Copiously illustrated.

About the Author
Tom Spurgeon is a former managing editor of The Comics Journal and the co-author of Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book. He lives in Silver City, New Mexico.

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