Creepy #17 1967

Frank Frazetta painted this nightmarish scene, titled 'Creepy #17', with oils and a hefty dose of imagination. The palette of hot oranges and reds makes it feel like the whole world is burning. A masked executioner stands ominously with an axe dripping blood, a stark figure painted with bold, confident strokes. It’s a study of contrasts, between the grotesque and the heroic, the shadow and the flame. What does it mean to be an artist consumed by these archetypes, creating these characters, these tense scenarios? Frazetta’s been an inspiration to generations of comic artists, myself included. I get such a kick out of the way he uses paint to create these wild, fantastical narratives. His paintings remind me that art can be a place where we grapple with the scary and the uncanny, turning it into something strangely beautiful. It’s about embracing the weird, the dark, and the unsettling, because that's where some of the most interesting art lives.