Frazetta: World''s Best Comics Cover Artist

About J. David Spurlock

J. David Spurlock is an award-winning author historian educator advocate for artists rights documentary filmmaker and associate to star talents Frazetta Basil Gogos Neal Adams Steranko Joe Kubert Carmine Infantino Julius Schwartz Wally Wood and many more. Spurlock's book How to Draw Chiller Monsters for Random House rose as high as #18 on the Bookspan best-seller list.  Spurlock's IPPY Award-winning book Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage has been universally acclaimed including by MTV and by the Village Voice who proclaimed it one of The Best of 2013. His guest speaking engagements include many San Diego Comic-Con presentations 2013 WorldCon (various lecture panels including on Robert E. Howard Copyright Law and on Margaret Brundage); with Stan Lee for Dragon Con TV and a live audience if 4600; The Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine re-launch convention; the Frank Frazetta tribute event at the San Diego Comic-Con; Rutgers School of Law; and University of the Arts in Philadelphia.According to the New York Times Frank Frazetta helped define fantasy heroes like Conan Tarzan and John Carter of Mars with signature images 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 potency but rendered with a panache seldom seen outside of major works of fine art. His work has drawn comparisons to illustrators Maxfield Parrish Frederic Remington Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth as well as fine artists like Rembrandt and Michelangelo. Frazetta works sell for millions of dollars and his work has inspired generations of artists movies and directors including the Conan films the Lord of the Rings trilogy the films of Robert Rodriguez the epic award-winning Game of Thrones series Tim Burtons Sleepy Hollow Disneys animated Tarzan films Francis Ford Coppolas Apocalypse Now and George Lucas Star Wars series.