A man sleeps now. He was truly just a man. A person. An individual. A family man. Wife, children, grandchildren. Just like so many of us. He loved, and was loved. He laughed, he cried. He played, he worked. He lived, he died. He had many talents, great skills, and was a TITAN at what he did in the world of Art. Some say his greatest ability was to paint. And he was truly a great painter. I say that wasn't his greatest ability. I say his greatest ability was to stir excitement in Art. Not just IN Art, but in creating Art. Yourself. Myself.

"If you can draw an egg, YOU can DO this! I will show you how!"

Those words from a $4.00 "How To Draw" book, along with seeing many works of his on paperback and comic covers, stirred that excitement in a 14 year old boy a long time ago.
Neither that man or that boy lost that excitement in all the following years. One of them had tremendous artistic talent and training, the other had desire and will, but little else.
That boy was like so many other people. All fired up, grabs up pencil and paper, and scribbles their way to the joy of creating something from their own self. Yes, joy. At being creative. No matter how poor the work, it was joy to know "I Did It!"
That boy became you, me, him, her and all them over there...creating their own works, inspired and motivated, confident that they CAN!

Frank Frazetta, I thank you for all you have given us. Given ME. I believe the best way to show my appreciation is to use what I've been given in creating my own Art.

I may not be good at it, but I never will be if I don't DO it!

Sleep well old man. We'll be along soon.

Michael S. McCollum
"McGrandpa"

Those lights up there, they are STARS! REACH for them!

My 66th Birthday PC Build (July 1, 2020) :  named BadMoonRYZEN!, W10Pro x64, Octal Core RYZEN7 X3700 4.05 GHz, 64GB DDR4 RAM, GeForce RTX 3060 - 12GB GDDR6, PP2014, PP 11, P12, PS-CS4 Extended & Vue 2024.

McG.