Description: Frank Thorne's Battling Beauties the Expanded Revised Edition, with interviews by Howard Leroy Davis; Definitive monograph covering the strong and sexy women from the fertile mind of Frank Thorne through a lengthy series of interviews; Full color; over 400 illustrations; Hermes Press celebrates the career of Frank Thorne, renowned good girl artist extraordinaire with a comprehensive art monograph exploring the art of the women he created during his extensive career. See pencils, preliminaries, final artwork, as well as the comics created by Thorne, focusing on his cheesecake creations. This extensive art monograph presents artwork from such titles as Red Sonja, Ghita, Lann, The Iron Devil, and more. This book explores not only the comic book artwork of Thorne, but also illustrates the motion picture concepts and storyboards for the never-made Ghita film. Additionally this book also provides a lengthy discussion by Thorne accompanied by hundreds of examples of how to draw "beautiful women." If you love the artwork of Frank Thorne, and you love sexy women, this is the book for you.
Brief description: Frank Thorne (1930-2021) was a comics creator who worked in comic books and syndicated strips beginning in 1948.He was known for his work on 'Red Sonja' at Marvel (1975-1978). Frank Thorne created Danger Rangerette, Ghita of Alizarr, Moonshine McJugs, Lann, and Ribit! Thorne received a National Cartoonists Society award (1963) and an Inkpot Award at San Diego (1978).