{"id":29923,"date":"2022-06-04T20:11:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T00:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29923"},"modified":"2022-06-04T20:11:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T00:11:36","slug":"rip-ken-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29923","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Ken Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ken Kelly died yesterday at the age of 76.\u00a0 No cause of death was reported.<\/p>\n

After serving four years in the marines, Ken Kelly decided on a career in art.\u00a0 He studied under his uncle, the legendary artist Frank Frazetta.\u00a0 Ken Kelly’s first professional assignment was for Warren’s Vampirella magazine.\u00a0 That assignment led to Mr. Kelly becoming one of Warren’s most popular and used artists.\u00a0 Soon other magazine and book publishers were seeking out Ken Kelly to produce covers for them.\u00a0 His art was especially suited to science fiction, horror and heroic fantasy.<\/p>\n

Then in 1975, Mr.. Kelly was commissioned to create the cover for Kiss’ Destroyer<\/em> album.\u00a0 The popularity of the Destroyer<\/em> cover opened up new opportunities.\u00a0 Soon Ken Kelly’s art was in demand for more album covers, games, calendars, book & magazine covers and books solely dedicated to his art.<\/p>\n

I’ve always enjoyed Ken Kelly’s artwork.\u00a0 My favorites were his barbarian paintings. He made warriors that didn’t look like they’d just come out of the gym, but had instead spent time on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Ken Kelly’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ken Kelly died yesterday at the age of 76.\u00a0 No cause of death was reported. After serving four years in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,52,17,56,64,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-celebs","category-comics","category-music","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29924,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29923\/revisions\/29924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}