28/11/2024
Supreme/Frank Frazetta
American artist Frank Frazetta is considered one of the most iconic science fiction and fantasy illustrators of all time. His distinctive depictions of sword-and sorcery-heroes, warrior women, warlocks, beasts and distant kingdoms captured the popular imagination, and influenced generations of artists to follow.
Frazetta was born in Brooklyn in 1928. His prodigious artistic talent was evident in his early childhood. At the age of eight, his parents enrolled him in the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Italian artist Michael Falanga for eight years. When the Academy shuttered following Falanga’s unexpected death, Frazetta went to work in the comic book industry.
At 16-years-old, Frazetta was already doing pencil clean-ups for artist Bernad Baily’s studio. Over the following decade, he illustrated Westerns, true crime, horror and mystery comics, including EC Comics titles and Buck Rogers covers. By the early 1960s, he’d moved on to painting film posters, as well as creating cover artwork for mass market paperback novels across adventure genres.
Frazetta imagined the titular heroes of the Conan, Tarzan, and John Carter of Mars series – as well as the maidens and monsters that filled their pages – with a sumptuous style rooted in his real life. “I’m very physical-minded. In Brooklyn, I knew Conan, I knew guys just like him,” Frazetta said. His sophisticated painterly compositions – rendered in lush hues and evocative shadows – suffused this brute physical strength and violent power with fleshy eroticism, mystery and danger. Frazetta’s modern, visceral approach drew countless readers, and came to visually define the worlds of science fiction and fantasy throughout the late 20th century.
Supreme has worked with the Frazetta estate on a new collection for Fall 2024. The collection consists of a Trucker Jacket, Track Jacket, Soccer Jersey, Hooded Sweatshirt, Jean, Track Pant, Soccer Short, two T-Shirts, Camp Cap and Plate.
Available Friday, November 29th.
Available in Asia November 30th.
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