Another Icon Ascends to Geek Heaven.

[Kost]

I grew up looking at Frazetta's art on my dad's Molly Hatchet albums, shame that he's gone. =(
Cripes we're losing personal heros and personal inspirations left and right.
-hides William Stout, Berkeley Breathed, various others-

[Lansiron]

RIP. Hopefully he's in Valhall, with six or seven ladies like this.

Check this picture out.

[Tarq]

Oh man, too awesome.

[Fingold]

RIP. Hopefully he's in Valhall, with six or seven ladies like this.

Check this picture out.

Translatin' in case people are curious what the artist wrote:

Frank Frazetta es lejos, al autor que más admiré, y cuya obra más inspiración y ánimo en este sacrificado oficio, me ha dado.
Al realizar este humilde tributo, y revisar sus personajes, les sentí como siempre, sumamente cercanos... como amigos, realmente muchos de nosotros conocemos bien estos rostros, es por eso que sin ningún afán existencial, esta imagen para mi representa el nuevo viaje y aventura del maestro Frazetta, recibido y saludado por los habitantes de los mundos que ha creado e interpretado, quienes se quedan, con nosotros, acompañándonos por mucho, mucho tiempo más....

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Frank Fanzetta is by far, the author I admired the most, and whose work has given me the most inspiration and encouragement in this work that demands so much sacrifice. In making this humble tribute, and revising his characters, I felt them as always, incredibly close... like friends, really many of us know those faces so well, this is why without any existential intentions [(?) not sure this is what he meant], this image represents to me the new voyage and adventure of maestro Frazetta, received and greeted by the inhabitants of the worlds he has created and given his interpretation to, they who stay, with us, together for longer, so much longer...

[Matsujin]

Unfortunately, it seems Ronnie James Dio died today as well.

[Lansiron]

Unfortunately, it seems Ronnie James Dio died today as well.

Man, seriously. Though it still lends weight to the notion that whatever the hell the afterlife is, it's full of awesomes--may we be worthy to ascend to the cool kids' heaven.