Frank Kramer (artist)

Frank Kramer (artist)

Frank Kramer (1909-1993) was an American artist known chiefly for his illustrations for
Jack Snow's two Oz books, "The Magical Mimics in Oz" and "The Shaggy Man of Oz", founded on and continuing the famous Oz stories by L. Frank Baum. He also illustrated Maureen Daly's "Twelve Around the World" (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1957), and many of Caary Paul Jackson's sports novels for children, including the Bud Baker series.

Almost nothing has been published about him save for a three-paragraph biographical entry in the appendix of Snow's "Who's Who in Oz", including (as of 2007) in "The Baum Bugle", the journal of The International Wizard of Oz Club.

Snow notes that Kramer was born in New York City and lived in Brooklyn, and was a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, living as modestly as a "typical" (Snow's quotation marks) business man. He had indeed been a business man, but gave it up to become a freelance artist. His work appeared in Street & Smith magazines prior to Snow's discovery of his "flair for the imaginative" in his sports drawings that drew Snow to his art, which Snow states is known nationally.

Books illustrated

*"The Magical Mimics in Oz" by Jack Snow (Reilly & Lee, 1946)
*"The Shaggy Man of Oz" by Jack Snow (Reilly & Lee, 1949)
*"Fullback in the Large Fry League" by C(aary) Paul Jackson (Follett Corporation, 1951)
*"" by Maureen Daly (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1957) (with Frank Daly)
*"Bud Baker, T Quarterback" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1960)
*"Bullpen Bargain" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1961)
*"Pro Hockey Comeback" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1961)
*"The Ironclads" by Frank Robert Donovan (A Wonderful World Book. A.S. Barnes and Company, 1961)
*"Great Suspense Stories" compiled by Rosamund Morris, (Hart Publishing, 1962)
*"Pro Football Rookie" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1962)
*"Bud Baker, Racing Swimmer" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1962)
*"Little Major Leaguer" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1963)
*"Chris Plays Small Fry Football" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1964)
*"Bud Plays Senior High Basketball" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1964)
*"Pee Wee Cook of the Midget League" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1964)
*"Junior High Freestyle Swimmer" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1965)
*"Minor League Shorstop" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1965)
*"Bud Baker, High School Pitcher" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1967)
*"Hall of Fame Flankerback" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1968)
*"Big Play in the Small League" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1968)
*"Pennant Stretch Drive" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1969)
*"Stepladder Steve Plays Basketball" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1969)
*"Bud Baker, College Pitcher" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1970)
*"Tim, the Football Nut" by C. Paul Jackson (Hastings House, 1972)
*"Physical Feats That Made History" by Harold H. Hart (Hart Publishing, 1974)

Magazine work

*ADVENTURE: Vol. 112, No. 5 (Popular Publications, May, 1946)
*ADVENTURE: Vol. 112, No. 5 (Popular Publications, December, 1947)
*Astounding Science Fiction: May 1941, Vol. 27, No. 3 (illustrations for the novella "Solution Unsatisfactory" by Anson MacDonald, pseudonym for Robert A. Heinlein)
*Astounding Science Fiction: December 1941, Vol. 27, No. 10 (illustrations for the novella "Defense Line" by Vic Phillips)

External links

* [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/t1276.htm#A28665 covers for "Short Stories" February and March, 1950]


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