The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta. 45th Ed.

My friend has volunteered to care for me post-surgery so I gave him this as a thank you. He was delirious with joy.

The book is a revelation. It’s huge in size, page numbers, quality, and weight.Very well annotated, good background about the man and his art. The reproduction of Frazetta’s art truly does his legacy justice.Yes it’s expensive but well worth it. Im sure it will become a collectors piece through time.A quick shout out to the sender as well. As standard the book comes in its own protective thick cardboard packaging which has a black ink representation of the book cover. Excellent touch and ideal if you have to take your book somewhere. ( keep it somewhere safe ). On top of that though it was then packed by the seller in a larger box, with a mountain of additional cardboard waffle padding. Short of an earthquake it was never going to get damaged in transit.Very worthy protection for a book this size and cost.Best purchase I’ve made in months!

This book is the most comprehensive Frazetta book I've seen its full of reference material I've never seen, alot of information and break down of his life and works he was and still is of the top masters of Sci fi fantasy its a must have for any fan of this art!! its huge book and heavy as &@#! Lol but worth every cent! I highly recommend it for any collector of Frazetta art!

Es que Frazetta no se merece menos, este libro descomunal es una maravilla visual, si todavía queda alguno no lo pienses, no te vas a arrepentir, de hecho te arrepentirás si no lo compras. Han hecho magia para conseguir una calidad de impresión de otro mundo en cada una de las páginas.

The media could not be loaded. Eigentlich wollte ich es bei dem Verlag selbst bestellen, weil dieser Frazetta Karton dabei ist, mein Mann wäre sicherlich erfreut gewesen. Ob der hier dabei ist, konnte ich nicht ersehen, da aber Taschen keine mehr hat und man vorbestellen muss, habe ich hier zugeschlagen und die Daumen gedrückt. Und siehe da, es kam mit dem Frazetta Karton, schön sicher eingepackt, was gut war, denn der Versandkarton hat etwas gelitten.Frazetta Box und Buch sind okay. UND es ist sogar noch eingeschweißt gewesen. Also alles brandneu, bin sehr erfreut, und mein Mann ist mehr als happy darüber.Über das Buch selbst, kann ich noch nichts sagen, aber es sieht fantastisch aus, Frank Frazetta eben, und schönes Format.Paket kam auch einen Tag eher an als angekündigt.

There have been a few decent-looking Frazetta books published over the last few years, but they're all long out-of-print & fetching high prices. I was very happy, therefore, to see that Taschen was releasing a definitive Frazetta monograph in its XXL format. I own a dozen XXL volumes, ranging from Bosch & Bruegel to Rembrandt & Velazquez, Schiele & Klimt to Winsor McCay & George Herriman -- every one a work of bibliographic art. Once again, Taschen has done a beautiful job, and so has author Dian Hanson. It spans his entire career, devoting a lot of page space to reproductions of original comic art, sketches & illustrations, before moving chronologically into his career as a cover artist, as he painted his gore-geously bloody, fleshy depictions of Conan & the creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs; it then delves into his years of growing fame & notoreity as the heavily sought-after master of fantasy kitsch. He had a style that illustrators have long struggled to emulate, and utterly failed to replicate.The book itself is -- like almost all of the XXL volumes -- printed & bound in Italy, as part of a 'limited edition' (mine is number 144 of 6000, so it shouldn't sell out too quickly; just to be sure, I ordered mine from Amazon.fr, since Taschen releases their books in Europe a couple months before they're available in N. America). As usual, it ships in a custom box to ensure the actual book survives the vagaries & depredations of shipping; it's just a brown cardboard box, as opposed to the beautifully designed 'travel boxes' that all the previous volumes arrived in, but it features huge Frazetta illustrations on front & back that make it a nice part of the overall package. The paper is thick, dense, & fine-grained; an acid-free coated stock, with a medium gloss finish. It's a very high-grade choice that is perfect for art-books, capturing the vivid colors of his oils & the velvety blacks of his work in ink with an intense verisimilitude. The photography is all very sharp & defined, but it would take a far more knowledgeable Frazetta fan than myself to pronounce the reproductions as exact representations. They sure look good to me.Until a Frank Frazetta catalogue raisonne emerges, this will probably be the book Frazetta fans return to for the foreseeable future. Even then, the massive 12" x 16" dimensions make this book a brilliant showcase for one of the greatest artist-illustrators of the 20th Century. Kitsch is Art. Art is Kitsch. Kitsch for Kitsch's sake.

Superbe livre...

Es un libro excelente en tamaño y calidad, lo que no me ha gustado es que tiene muchas páginas en blanco (negro mejor dicho sólo con el título de la obra) y muchos espacios desaprovechados. Las imágenes que han elegido para poner en grande no me parecen las más adecuadas y se repiten bastantes.Es una gozada de libro pero por el precio que tiene podría ser mejor.