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Frazetta On Film

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • January 10, 2012 1:00 AM
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Frank Frazetta is revered as one of the great illustrators of the 20th century; his comics, magazine and paperback covers, especially in the realm of science-fiction and fantasy, are highly collectible. But fewer people seem to know about his mostly-anonymous freelance assignments creating artwork for movie posters in the 1960s and 70s like 'What’s New Pussycat?', 'After the Fox', and' The Night They Raided Minsky’s'.

Catching Up...

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • July 5, 2011 4:30 AM
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Once again, it’s time for me to offer links to movie-related articles and activities, like this article about the discovery of notes Charlie Chaplin wrote for what might have been his first talking picture. The Chaplin family archives continue to yield wonderful discoveries and this is no exception. Read more HERE.

Marlene Dietrich, beautifully captured by Al Kilgore. His concepts were as clever as his drawings.

If you love caricatures, as I do, you ought to be reading the regular blog posts by one of this generation’s great practitioners of the art, Drew Friedman. He recently paid tribute to one of my heroes, a man who was very dear to me named Al Kilgore, rightly dubbing him “King of the Caricaturists.” Take a look at his work HERE and you’ll see why. Drew continually finds wonderful artwork by his favorites and discusses them from his unique vantage point as one of their equals. His tribute to—