JASON, COME HOME
- JASON, COME HOME - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille board. It appears in the book, "TRANSIENTS and Other Disquieting Stories," by Darrell Schweitzer, published by Ganley in 1993.
This is one of those cases where it is OK to copy someone else's artwork; this story is about a young man who builds model planes, reads science fiction, and has a poster by Frank Frazetta hanging on a wall in his bedroom. That's why you see my "copy" of Frazetta's "Death Dealer" poster figure in the drawing. I did not present it here as being my creation, but as Frazetta's poster image.
By the way, that young man was me back in 1953; I built stick and tissue rubber powered model airplanes, just like that "Stinson Reliant" you see hanging there. And I read SF pulp magazines.
However, Frazetta had not yet become a super-star illustrator as he became later on, starting in the 1960s. I was an Edd Cartier, Virgil Finlay, Hannes Bok, Lawrence Stevens fan. Still am. When Frazetta started painting covers for the Burroughs and Howard paperbacks in the 1960s he became another favorite of mine. He has surpassed all contemporary media artists in popularity and monetary worth. His best paintings are valued today at over a million dollars each. He died recently, and sadly his heirs are now fighting over his estate which includes most of the million dollar paintings that were once displayed in the Frazetta Art Museum.
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