Fantasy Art of Frank Frazetta 2016 Wall Calendar Calendar – Wall Calendar, July 25, 2015

It's great to have Frazetta back in calendar form. He's one of the top illustrators from the last half of the 20th C., and often overlooked by "serious" devotees because of his close association with comics and fantasy fiction. But he was a master in his field, responsible for many popular trends (his covers would sell a book, and turned Conan into a blockbuster). Frazetta was also responsible for creating business standards in the field of commercial art.His career spanned decades and multiple genres: Comic books, comic strips, movie posters, and of course magazine and pocketbook covers.The twelve images here are all fantasy and sword and sorcery images spanning about 30 years. There's a good variety, with some printed crisp and clear, others looking just a bit foggy (Egyptian Queen). From an early Conan cover to a much later and sketchier, but just as powerful, The Defender, it's a great collection to be hanging on the wall.NOTE: The July image, Princess and the Panther is a full frontal nude, which might render the calendar NSFW, or inappropriate for some areas.

Nice looking calendar, 12inch by 12inch, arrived sealed and unbent or had any folded creases. There are 12 images for 12 months in this calendar from Frazetta's artworks. The 12 images are; The Barbarian, Death Dealer, Egyptian Queen, The Berserker, Kane on the Golden Sea, Monster Out of Time, Princess and the Panther, The Defender, Beauty and the Beast, The Mammoth, Flesh Eaters, and Silver Warrior. You can click on the images that Amazon has shown, and its a great deal if you are just buying it for the artwork or making few frame pictures. The print and color is just about right for this type of calendar. For Pathfinder and D&D players/DMs, this is a nice addition for Fantasy theme or collection, I liked it.

I haven't gotten these calendars every year but I'm not sure why I haven't. The works are always great to look at and having a new picture for the month is a great way to display some positively great works. Other than that, the days are large enough to write something down in if that is what you want to do, but in the day of smart phones that isn't really a requirement.If you love this sort of work this is some of the best around.

This is a very nice selection of his artwork. The colors are great, the print job is excellent, and the months are well put together. I think a couple of the months could have used better images (I'm not fond of Beauty and the Beast for example or the publisher's choice for December), and that there could have been a better balance of male and female images.

a brillant way to appriciate any artist is to see their work and although the majority of these may be quite familiar its a stellar way to marvel at the productive quality of the individual

I got this even when it's a year old. Viewing Frazetta's art is always a treat. I got this years calendar as well.

How can you go wrong with a calendar that has different Frazetta art for each month?Okay, it might be redundant if you already have prints or the originals hanging on your walls but otherwise this calendar is awesome.

Twelve of Frank's best known and most popular works. Gotta love it.

Fantastic !! A Real Tour de Force from a Master of Fantasy Art.

Après quelques temps sans calendriers du grand maître du genre voilà que l'année 2016 nous réserve cette merveille artistique comme le plus beau des cadeaux. Un calendrier pleine couleur et pleine page nous rappelant quelques peintures essentielles de l'artiste, dont certaines qui bien que moins connues distillent le même parfum d'absolu pour cette fantasy vitaliste, hors normes, et qui nous fait renouer l'espace de 12 tableaux avec des images viscérales, fortes, si fidèles à l'esprit du grand écrivain Texan, Robert Ervin Howard. Espérons que cet heureux retour soit plus régulier. Car Frazetta nous manque beaucoup. Sans parler des dernières traductions de ses oeuvres qu'on souhaiterait voir plus nombreuses en langue française. Un calendrier événement et qui nous aide quelque part à supporter un monde souvent très décevant en le sublimant et le dépassant par cet art fulgurant de l'immédiateté. Le grand oeuvre de la Sword en Sorcery, qui n'est par comme beaucoup le disent une fantasy plus ancienne mais plutôt une fantasy vitaliste célébrant un réalisme magique et un surhumain courageux face à la cruauté existentielle d'un monde autrement plus barbare qu'il se dit civilisé, lui-même autrement plus civilisé que ceux pensant le détruire afin d'imposer une fausse civilisation. Une question prenant tout son relief quand on relit Conan : Conan chante-t-il la fin de la civilisation ou bien cette décadence face à laquelle il impose par une force tranquille une certaine idée d'un ordre à la mesure d'un homme se débattant dans des sociétés sans lois. Ce qui tout en contredisant Robert Howard à la base le magnifie par les interrogations multiples qu'il soulève. A méditer en revoyant ces peintures de toute beauté. Un beau retour.