Go, Read: Greg Cwiklik On Frazetta

I greatly enjoyed Greg Cwiklik's look back at Frank Frazetta's career, a piece currently posted at TCJ.com. Unlike most of the writers who focused on Frazetta immediately after his passing, Cwiklik can remember what it was like to experience Frazetta's great '60s run of book and magazine covers as they were coming out, in a day where there wasn't the immediate context of the Internet and really not much in the way of fertile ground for such efforts to find cultural purchase, period. Cwiklik is also an artist, and I think smartly encapsulates a certain way that many artists must have regarded the ice-cool, successful Frazetta, at least in part.

Greg Cwiklik was just about the last established, formidable writer regularly writing for The Comics Journal when I sat down in the basement of Fantagraphics for the first time in 1994, and we leaned on him a lot for major pieces on interview subjects like Frazetta. I thought he had a direct, not-fussy quality when it came to mixing personal observation and artistic appraisal that served him and the magazine very well, and it's always good to read a piece by him.
 
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