One of my favorites..

Frank Frazetta. One of my all time favorite artists. My dad turned me on to him when i was at least 6 or 7 years old, and ive loved his work ever since... how simple and effective his backgrounds are, and how imaginative and way ahead of his time his subject matter was. And the amazing part is that most of his paintings were done the night before a deadline in about 6-8 hours.