MAY 10, 2010: Frazetta has died
Returning home from a “Mother’s Day” meal, Frazetta complained of pain and was rushed to a hospital where he later expired. Cause of death is attributed to a stroke. Easily the preeminent fantasy book illustrator of the 60s and 70s, Frazetta is also famous for highly-regarded 1950’s comic book work and for a long string of covers for the Warren Magazines.
FRANK FRAZETTA APPRECIATION
This had been a tough past year for Frazetta Sr: his wife and de facto business manager Ellie Frazetta died of cancer in July 2009, and then in December son Frazetta Jr. staged a raid on the Frazetta Museum with the (apparently) dubious task of kidnapping the bulk of the Frazetta Museum artwork to put it into storage to keep it out of the hands of his three other siblings.
