Frank Frazetta was the most influential artist in the world of science fiction and fantasy. You've seen his work. His art for the paperback covers of Conan, and of Edgar Rice Burroughs paperbacks, made the stories come alive. He obviously knew anatomy, not only of humans, but of other life forms as well.

I learned his name in the 1960s, but I remember admiring his artwork as far back as the early days of Mad Magazine in the 1950s, back before it was gelded. He did the posters for such classics as What’s New Pussycat?, and The Secret of My Success.

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His 1967 painting of "Conan the Conquerer" sold for over a million dollars last year. Many of his art pieces are in the Frazetta Museum in East Stroudsburg.

Frank's wife died of cancer last July, and newspapers reported that he was suffering from dementia. He died on Sunday night of a stroke, while in the hospital. He was 82. It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but that's an average. Some pictures aren't worth a dozen words. Frazetta's were worth millions of words.

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