- A. B. Frost
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name = A. B. Frost
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caption = A 1921 illustration by Frost
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birthdate = birth date |1851|1|17|
location =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
deathdate = death date and age |1928|6|22|1851|1|17|
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nationality = American
field =Comics ,Graphic art ,lithography ,Painting
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awards =Arthur Burdett Frost (January 17, 1851 - June 22, 1928), was an early American illustrator, graphic artist, and comics writer. He was also well known as a painter. Frost's work is well known for its dynamic representation of motion and sequence. Frost is considered one of the great illustrators in the "Golden Age of American Illustration". Frost illustrated over 90 books, and produced hundreds of paintings; in addition to his work in illustrations, he is renowned for realistic hunting and shooting prints.
Frost was born on January 17, 1851, in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , the eldest of ten children; his father was a literature professor. He became a lithographer, and in 1874 he was asked by a friend to illustrate a book of humorous short stories, which was a commercial success, selling more than a million copies.In 1876, Frost joined the art department at the publisher
Harper & Brothers , where he worked with such well-known illustrators asHoward Pyle ,E. W. Kemble ,Frederic Remington , andC. S. Reinhart . While there, he learned a wide variety of techniques, from cartooning to what later came to be calledphotorealistic painting. Frost'scolor blindness may have helped his excellent use ofgrayscale . In 1877 and 1878, Frost went toLondon to study with some of the great cartoonists of the time. Later, he returned to Philadelphia and studied under paintersThomas Eakins andWilliam Merritt Chase at thePennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts .Soon after returning, he published several stories formed of sequential drawings with captions, pioneering the form that would later develop into comic strips and comic books. In 1884, Frost published "Stuff and Nonsense", an anthology of his works that advanced the concept of time-stop drawings and contained other innovations.
From 1906 until May of 1914, Frost and his family lived in France, attracted by the Impressionist movement. Upon returning to the United States, he continued work as an illustrator and comics artist, mainly for
Life Magazine . Frost died on June 22, 1928.In popular culture
The
antagonist in the 2008science fiction novelette "The Last of the Funnies" byMike Cope (cartoonist) is named after Frost. [ [http://lastofthefunnies.com/plot The Last of the Funnies » Plot Description » Official Website ] ]Partial list of works
*"Out of the Hurly Burly", illustrations (1874)
*"Rhyme? & Reason?", byLewis Carroll (1883)
*"A Tangled Tale ", by Lewis Carroll (1886)
*"Our Cat Eats Rat Poison" (titled "Fatal Mistake" in later editions)
*"Stuff and Nonsense", anthology (1884)
*"The Bull Calf and other tales", anthology (1892)
*"Carlo" (1912)References
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Morton N. Cohen and Edward Wakeling, "Lewis Carroll and his illustrators", Macmillan, London (2003) pp.37-99
*Coconino World Production. [http://www.coconino-world.com/sites_auteurs/ab-frost/ "A. B. Frost: Forgotten Master of the Comic Strip"] . Retrieved June 1, 2005.Dead link|date=August 2008
*Lambiek Comiclopedia. [http://www.lambiek.net/frost_ab.htm "A. B. Frost"] . Retrieved June 1, 2005.Dead link|date=August 2008
*Getarthere.com. [http://www.getarthere.com/af.shtml "A. B. Frost"] . Retrieved June 1, 2005.
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