You guys are so predictable
Correspondent:: Mister Hand
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:15:50 -0500
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I knew it. You guys are all so wrapped up wailing and beating your
heads on the wall about some fucking dead comic illustrator named Freas
of Fresse or whatever. GET A GRIP!!!
Correspondent:: Mister Hand
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:21:45 -0500
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Mister Hand wrote:
> I knew it. You guys are all so wrapped up wailing and beating your
> heads on the wall about some fucking dead comic illustrator named Freas
> of Fresse or whatever. GET A GRIP!!!
Freas, illustrated for Mad Magazine and NASA
TIM MOLLOY
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Frank Kelly Freas, an influential illustrator who produced
sleek, stirring images for science fiction and fantasy books and helped
shape the image of Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Newman, has died. He
was 82.
Freas died in his sleep Sunday at his home in Los Angeles, said his wife
of 16 years, Laura Brodian Freas, the host of a Los Angeles classical
music program. The cause of death was old age, she said.
"He always wanted to be a science fiction illustrator, and the life of a
science fiction illustrator led him to so much more," she told The
Associated Press on Monday. "Life with a Mad artist was never boring."
In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Freas' illustrated the
covers or the pages of books by writers including Isaac Asimov, Robert
Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, A.E. Van Vogt, Poul Anderson and Frederik Pohl.
His science fiction and fantasy illustrations included emotive images of
pained robots, insidious aliens and exotic women.
Beginning in the 1950s, he spent seven years as the main cover artist of
Mad Magazine, creating spot-on, stylishly detailed portraits and helping
to make famous Alfred E. Newman, the freckled, front-tooth deprived
purveyor of the phrase, "What? Me Worry?"
"Kelly Freas created the future in his paintings, sleekly delineating a
style that has influenced two generations of designers as the technology
became available to make his fantasies real," said Paul Levitz, the
President of DC Comics, which publishes Mad Magazine. "And with the
impish grin he gave Alfred, he winked and warned us not to take it all
too seriously."
His other illustrations included the official patch of NASA's 1973
Skylab 1 orbiting space station, as well as the covers of such Mad
paperbacks as "Son of Mad" and "Ides of MAD."
Freas (pronounced "freeze") also created the cover of Queen's 1977 album
"News of the World," and a picture of a werewolf that appeared in the
movie "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."
Born on Aug. 27, 1922, in Hornell, New York, Freas demonstrated artistic
talent at an early age. In the late 1930s, he attended the Art Institute
of Pittsburgh, where he received a Doctor of Arts.
While serving in the Pacific theater in World War II in photo
reconnaissance, he passed his spare time painting beautiful women on the
noses of bomber airplanes.
Freas started as a commercial illustrator, but soon moved on to science
fiction and fantasy illustrations. He illustrated publications including
Analog, Weird Tales or Astounding Science Fiction, as well as dozens of
book covers.
Among his awards, Freas received 11 Hugo awards for his achievements in
science fiction, five of them awarded in consecutive years. In December
of 2003 he received a Doctor of Arts degree from the Art Institute of
Pittsburgh.
Besides his wife, Freas is survived by his daughter, Jacqui; his son
Jerry Freas; and six grandchildren.
A public memorial is scheduled Sunday at the Church of Scientology
Celebrity Center and Manor Hotel.
ON THE NET
http://www.kellyfreas.com/
Correspondent:: Reverend Kenny <5ubg3n1u5@comcast.no.spam>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:46:55 -0500
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Mister Hand wrote:
> I knew it. You guys are all so wrapped up wailing and beating your
> heads on the wall about some fucking dead comic illustrator named Freas
> of Fresse or whatever. GET A GRIP!!!
Who?
--
Illuminations,
Reverend Kenny
"Your enemy is not surrounding your country. Your enemy is ruling your
country."
-George Orwell
Correspondent:: asscoassc@aol.comBLOWME (AssCo Assc)
Date: 04 Jan 2005 16:07:35 GMT
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<< Who? >>
Kelly Freas.
Yeah, he was good.
http://www.kellyfreas.com/
ooOOoo
It petrifies the tongue. . .
Shoots arrows through the lung. . .
Guttural rending pain . . .
. . . and next it Sclerotifies the brain
-- Copyright 2004 Ilya Shambat
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:19:25 GMT
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In article <20050104110735.16056.00002732@mb-m02.aol.com>,
asscoassc@aol.comBLOWME (AssCo Assc) wrote:
> << Who? >>
>
> Kelly Freas.
>
> Yeah, he was good.
>
> http://www.kellyfreas.com/
In one more generation, there won't be anyone left who knows how to
hold a brush filled with pigment and everything will look like it was
rendered in fucking damned Poser.
Pretty funny to think that an EM burst from a nuke will not only kill
off people, but the means to produce any human-heart-based graphic art
whatsoever. There's another piece on the End Times chess board for ya.
--
HellPope Huey
A lurking tsunami in every hot tub,
a budding conspiracy in every sock drawer,
a potential holocaust in every birth control dispenser.
Are you bored? Are you jaded?
Has all enthusiasm faded?
Are you one of those people like glazed fruit
Who sit there in shell shock
Till the dot on your screen
disappears?
- Creme & Godley, "L"
My mind is a swamp
glutted with the wreckage
of ancient sitcom gags.
- Nenslo
Correspondent:: bobdiddley@aol.com (O.B. Hayve)
Date: 05 Jan 2005 22:44:19 GMT
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>Mister Hand wrote:
>> I knew it. You guys are all so wrapped up wailing and beating your
>> heads on the wall about some fucking dead comic illustrator named Freas
>> of Fresse or whatever. GET A GRIP!!!
>
>Who?
>--
>Illuminations,
>Reverend Kenny
>
>"Your enemy is not surrounding your country. Your enemy is ruling your
>country."
>-George Orwell
>
I just walked in on this thread, but I'm guessing he must mean Kelly Freas, who
drew for Mad Magazine back in THE day.
=========================================================
"In the summertime, he even wears SHORTS - to the detriment of the surrounding
medium." King Baker, in the Vanishing Breed
Correspondent:: Reverend Kenny <5ubg3n1u5@comcast.no.spam>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:00:17 -0500
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> I just walked in on this thread, but I'm guessing he must mean Kelly Freas, who
> drew for Mad Magazine back in THE day.
Oh... I had no idea. Now I know who he was.
"Your enemy is not surrounding your country. Your enemy is ruling your
country."
-George Orwell
Correspondent:: asscoassc@aol.comBLOWME (AssCo Assc)
Date: 19 Jan 2005 15:00:37 GMT
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<< I just walked in on this thread, but I'm
guessing he must mean Kelly Freas, who
for Mad Magazine back in THE day. >>
That's his most cited accomplishment, yet
he only did 30 or so covers, maybe 40 if you
include the paperback collections. Not ONCE
have I heard anyone mention his work for
"Cracked". . .
ooOOoo
Daily Affirmation:
No matter what new depths to which my life may fall,
I may always take solace in the fact
that I will never be found refining a puppet act.
Correspondent:: "angelicusrex"
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:17:04 -0700
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"Mister Hand" wrote in message
news:ydlCd.11401$6i.10989@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
>I knew it. You guys are all so wrapped up wailing and beating your heads
>on the wall about some fucking dead comic illustrator named Freas of Fresse
>or whatever. GET A GRIP!!!
Kelly Freas was an INK GOD!!!! What're you? A pissant?
Archimandrite Pudlevitcz
Correspondent:: purple
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 23:19:25 -0500
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On 1/3/05 7:15 PM, in article ydlCd.11401$6i.10989@bignews6.bellsouth.net,
"Mister Hand" wrote:
> I knew it. You guys are all so wrapped up wailing and beating your
> heads on the wall about some fucking dead comic illustrator named Freas
> of Fresse or whatever. GET A GRIP!!!
I agree with this post. But I understand why they're in such a state and
will never get a grip. It's the fate of those who reincarnated as Americans
twenty to fifty years ago.
The Great Bob Dobbs
Correspondent:: asscoassc@aol.comBLOWME (AssCo Assc)
Date: 06 Jan 2005 02:31:20 GMT
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> I knew it. You guys are all so wrapped up wailing and beating your
> heads on the wall about some fucking dead comic illustrator named Freas. . .
And now Will Eisner!
It's the rupture!
ooOOoo
It petrifies the tongue. . .
Shoots arrows through the lung. . .
Guttural rending pain . . .
. . . and next it Sclerotifies the brain
-- Copyright 2004 Ilya Shambat
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:00:55 GMT
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In article <20050105213120.07908.00003064@mb-m07.aol.com>,
asscoassc@aol.comBLOWME (AssCo Assc) wrote:
> > I knew it. You guys are all so wrapped up wailing and beating your
> > heads on the wall about some fucking dead comic illustrator named Freas. .
>
> And now Will Eisner!
> It's the rupture!
Sure makes you wonder what we will do when Nenslo actually dies.
Discuss.
--
HellPope Huey
If I could catch Time in a bottle...
I'd go back, buy a bunch of Microsoft stock
and kick the crap out of Hitler.
Wouldn't you?
"Just because a man sleeps with his daughter,
drinks liquor from a jelly jar
and has cars up on blocks in his front yard
doesn't make him a racist
and I'm sure I speak for all white trash
when I say that we don't want to be associated
with the redneck peckerwoods."
- A. Whitney Brown
"Baby Oopsy kicked my butt!"
- "Puppet Master Vs. Demonic Toys"
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:20:35 GMT
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HellPope Huey wrote:
>In article <20050105213120.07908.00003064@mb-m07.aol.com>,
> asscoassc@aol.comBLOWME (AssCo Assc) wrote:
>
>> > I knew it. You guys are all so wrapped up wailing and beating your
>> > heads on the wall about some fucking dead comic illustrator named Freas. .
>>
>> And now Will Eisner!
>> It's the rupture!
>
> Sure makes you wonder what we will do when Nenslo actually dies.
>Discuss.
>
Not to worry! Since only the good die young, Neslo will live forever!
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 05:17:27 GMT
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In article ,
König Prüß, GfbAEV wrote:
> Not to worry! Since only the good die young, Neslo will live forever!
Good, that means he'll have to sweep up after Armageddon. He'll hate
that, because the pushbroom will be 4 blocks wide.
--
HellPope Huey ~ www.subgenius.com
What a grand day to be a mutant!
"Its really great to see a couple of you."
- Danny DeVito
"When she can fall out of a tree
and land on her feet,
THEN I'll be impressed."
- "Stuart Little 2"
Correspondent:: elvis_bond@hotmail.com
Date: 19 Jan 2005 07:31:06 -0800
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A public memorial is scheduled Sunday at the Church of Scientology
Celebrity Center and Manor Hotel.
**********the fucking what?************
Correspondent:: "Assco"
Date: 19 Jan 2005 07:59:47 -0800
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Yeah, well Basil Wolverton did plenty
of work for Awake and Watchtower --
and those rags never even admitted to
being science fiction.