Ken Kelly, one of the most gifted fantasy artists of the past 50 years, passed away at the age of 76.
Frank Frazetta’s nephew, Kelly, best known for his work on album covers, has accomplished everything from KISS’ Destroyer to Rainbow’s Rise for a series of parts for Manowar LPs.
Kelly also works closely with several major toy companies in the In the 1980s, with perhaps his most notable contributions being Master of the universe and Micronauts the paintings, while he was also responsible for some of the paintings Star Wars: Expanded Universe Even things from the 1990s onwards.
Outside of his more commercial work, however, Kelly is also noted simply for the sheer amount of bad fantasy art he’s been able to create over the course of his career, at times Conan the Barbarianother times just because he has an idea about something infinite metal.
You can see more of Kelly’s works at his personal page.
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