Recognized as the most prolific and popular Science Fiction artist worldwide, (Frank) Kelly Freas illustrated stories by some of Science Fiction's greatest writers: Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, A. E. Van Vogt, Poul Anderson, and Frederik Pohl, to name just a few. Nominated an unprecedented twenty times, Freas was the first to receive ten Hugo Awards (World Science Fiction "Oscars) for achievement in the field as Best Professional Artist.
In the course of his remarkable career, he even illustrated Mad magazine covers from 1955 to 1962. An official NASA mission artist, his space posters hang in the Smithsonian, and he designed a crew patch for Skylab I.
You can also find his art on record and CD albums (for instance his cover for Queen's first two million sale: News of the World, or on the cover of DC Comics' 1992 Star Trek Annual. He painted beautiful women on the noses of World War II bombers, as well as portraits of five hundred saints for the Franciscans. He was even commissioned to create biomedical art. He also wrote and illustrated The Astounding Fifties, Frank Kelly Freas: The art of Science Fiction, and A Separate Star.
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