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Kelly Freas MAD #48 Cover Painting Original Art (EC, 1959)
Auction: 04/07/2022 - 4/10/2022
Lot: 94087
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1922 Hornell, New York - 2005 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Illustrator-science fiction, humor.
Kelly Freas was a science fiction illustrator whose images included robots, aliens and exotic women. He is most associated with the shaping of the image of Alfred E. Newman "Mad" magazine" mascot. He... Read full biography
Kelly Freas was a science fiction illustrator whose images included robots, aliens and exotic women. He is most associated with the shaping of the image of Alfred E. Newman "Mad" magazine" mascot. He began with "Mad" in the 1950s, and spent seven years as the main cover artist creating humorous... Read full biography
Kelly Freas was a science fiction illustrator whose images included robots, aliens and exotic women. He is most associated with the shaping of the image of Alfred E. Newman "Mad" magazine" mascot. He began with "Mad" in the 1950s, and spent seven years as the main cover artist creating humorous portraits including Newman, the "freckled, front-tooth-deprived purveyor of the phrase, 'What? Me Worry?' ". Freas had a career lasting more than fifty years. His illustration work was for book covers... Read full biography
Kelly Freas was a science fiction illustrator whose images included robots, aliens and exotic women. He is most associated with the shaping of the image of Alfred E. Newman "Mad" magazine" mascot. He began with "Mad" in the 1950s, and spent seven years as the main cover artist creating humorous portraits including Newman, the "freckled, front-tooth-deprived purveyor of the phrase, 'What? Me Worry?' ". Freas had a career lasting more than fifty years. His illustration work was for book covers for writers including Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, A.E. Van Vogt, Poul Anderson and Frederik Pohl. He also designed the official patch of NASA's 1973 Skylab 1 orbiting space station. Freas (pronounced "freeze") also created the... Read full biography
Kelly Freas was a science fiction illustrator whose images included robots, aliens and exotic women. He is most associated with the shaping of the image of Alfred E. Newman "Mad" magazine" mascot. He began with "Mad" in the 1950s, and spent seven years as the main cover artist creating humorous portraits including Newman, the "freckled, front-tooth-deprived purveyor of the phrase, 'What? Me Worry?' ". Freas had a career lasting more than fifty years. His illustration work was for book covers for writers including Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, A.E. Van Vogt, Poul Anderson and Frederik Pohl. He also designed the official patch of NASA's 1973 Skylab 1 orbiting space station. 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 Azka... Read full biography
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