Talk:Frank Frazetta

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This short blurb doesn't really do this incredible artist justice. If anyone has anymore specific information (exact date of birth, marriage date, number of children, etc.), please add it. The bio is really incomplete and could use a lot of work. —Frecklefoot 22:01, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Painting

Would it be more appropriate to have the painting at the top and his photo later. I think more people coming to the page are interested in his painting style.

Where are the images of his paintings?! For an entry about an artist its lacking considerably in images of his work. Only a single cover of a modern repurposing of his artwork on an album?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.98.1.226 (talk • contribs)

There are numerous copyright issues to deal with. Some could be considered fair use, but even the album cover teeters on non-fair use because it is used in this article, which is not about the album. If you want more images, dive into the murkey depths of the copyright issues to try and get them in here. You'll probably have to scan the images of the paintings yourself, as we can't just lift them from other sites. — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:35, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

That's actually not true. If a website has an image of a painting, and we have a fair-use claim to that painting, we can use the image from that site. Scanning, copying, and photographing a work does not constitute making a derivative work, and as such, the web-site operator (or photographer, or scanner, or whoever) does not have any copyright claim on the piece. Only the original copyright stands. However, as it is, the album cover (used here) explicitly fails Wikipedia's fair-use policy (an album cover can only be fairly-used to illustrate the audio recording in question). I've removed it. --Cheeser1 (talk) 08:22, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

And while I do think it'd be great to have example images, as they might be helpful and illustrative, we simply can't violate copyright law to do it. It's not like we post a full copy of MS Office in the article Microsoft Office, nor do we put up mp3s of all the hits at Rolling Stones. In the latter case, yes, we can sometimes use short audio clips, but only to accompany the article about the recording in question - we couldn't use Paint it Black in the article guitar just because it features a guitar. --Cheeser1 (talk) 08:31, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paintings

Who determines which paintings are notable enough to be included on the list? I can think of several others I would add to the list. And wasn't a Molly Hatchet album cover by him as well? Noahbain

Any widely circulated painting should qualify. I think the Molly Hatchet covers you're thinking of are actually "Dark Kingdom" and "The Death Dealer." I don't know if he was commisioned by them to do those paintings or if he created them and they were adapted by them for their covers. He might've done others too, however; those are the only two I know of. Other covers for Hatchet were done by Boris Vallejo, whose style is similar to Frazetta's. — Frecklefoot | Talk 17:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Good view

Any truth to the claim he did work for Penthouse Comix? If so, source it there? Trekphiler (talk) 16:17, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

No comics, but I think he might have a showcased gallery in some issue. I'll try to check out my old issues, soon. 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * (talk) 21:25, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

He did do Penthouse magazine's Little Annie Fannie (or whatever it's called) for a while. — Frecklefσσt | Talk 23:20, 8 March 2008 (UTC)