J. David Spurlock is an award-winning author, historian, educator, advocate for artists' rights, documentary filmmaker and associate to star talents Frazetta, Basil Gogos, Neal Adams, Steranko, Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Julius Schwartz, Wally Wood and many more. Spurlock's book How to Draw Chiller Monsters, for Random House, rose as high as #18 on the Bookspan best-seller list. Spurlock's IPPY Award-winning book, Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage, has been universally acclaimed including by MTV and by the Village Voice who proclaimed it one of The Best of 2013. In 2012, Spurlock was appointed Director of the Wallace Wood Estate. Wood is the Hugo Award recognized illustrator of Galaxy and Planet Stories as well as the comic-book Hall of Fame co-creator of MAD, Mars Attacks, Daredevil and Weird Science. A partial list of Spurlock's guest speaking engagements include: many San Diego Comic-Con presentations, 2013 WorldCon (various lecture panels including on Robert E. Howard, Copyright Law, and on Margaret Brundage); with Stan Lee for Dragon Con TV and a live audience if 4,600; The Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine re-launch convention; the Frank Frazetta tribute event at the San Diego Comic-Con; Rutgers School of Law; and University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
About the world's greatest heroic fantasy artist, FrankFrazetta, The New York Times said, "Frazetta helped define fantasy heroeslike Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars with signature images of strikinglyfierce, hard-bodied heroes and bosomy, callipygian damsels" Frazetta tookthe sex and violence of the pulp fiction of his youth and added even more action,fantasy and potency, but rendered with a panache seldom seen outside of majorworks of Fine Art. Despite his fantastic subject matter, the qualityof Frazetta's work has not only drawn comparisons to the most brilliant ofillustrators, Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyethbut, even to the most brilliant of fine artists including Rembrandt andMichelangelo and, major Frazetta works sell for millions of dollars, breakingnumerous records,
This innovator's work has inspired generations of artists, moviesand directors including the Conan films, John Carter of Mars, the Lord of theRings trilogy, Robert Rodriguez' films including From Dusk Till Dawn, RalphBakshi films, the epic, award-winning Game of Thrones series, Tim Burton'sSleepy Hollow, Disney's animated Tarzan films, Francis Ford Coppola'sApocalypse Now and George Lucas' Star Wars series. The Forbes magazine articleSchwarzenegger's Sargent led with the line, "Which artist helped makeArnold governor? Frank Frazetta, the Rembrandt of barbarians."
