Kelly Freas

Fan
Name:	Frank Kelly Freas
Alias(es):	Kelly Freas
Type:	fan artist, proffesional artist
Fandoms:	Star Trek: TOS
Communities:
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URL:	"Kelly Freas dressed up in his Klingon guise as 'Lt. Krylic' at ReKWest*Con" -- cover of Spectrum #27, art by Marty Siegrist (1976).
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Kelly Freas was a professional science fiction artist who was also a Star Trek fan. He drew several Star Trek pieces, including a set of portraits for Officers of the Bridge, a booklet produced for a 1976 New York convention.

In his professional life, he was known as the Dean of Science Fiction artists (to complement author Robert A. Heinlein's designation as the Dean of Science Fiction). His art appears on the covers of many well known SF novels, he also painted the SF themed cover of Queen's 1977 album, News Of the World.

Sharon Ferraro wrote a profile of Kelly Freas for Menagerie #6 (1975), called "A Gremlin in Trekland."

a 1976 ad for paintings

In 1984, he was a Guest of Honor at the Brave New Con.

a self-portrait printed in 1975 for the ReKWest*Con program book, a con at which Freas was the Guest of Honor

Reviews and Recommendations

Also, Freas's magazine work from the '50s are all paintings that speak for their stories with grace, charm, felicity, and even gusto, where appropriate; in additon, many of them can stand alone on their purely internal expression of realized fantasy, or on the intrinsic visual delightfulness of form, color, and texture that inheres to each. Today, Freas has reached the heights of his technical mastery, yet rarely achieves the creative sparkle he demonstrated so often a decade ago. Nevertheless, that's hardly sufficient reason to mark Freas as the lowest inch on the yardstick! Can a man's best effort be forgotten?

 

Archives/Zines/Collections/Communities

Zines

As Contributor

Issue Year	Zine Name	Contribution
Sort under Issue Year (1998)	Sort under Zine Name (The Cat Zine)	Sort under Stories Published (I love cats, How to Pet a Cat, My Cat)
Sort under Issue Year (2000, 2003)	Sort under Zine Name (A Cool Zine)	Sort under Stories Published (Cool Name (2000), An Iceberg (2000), Cool Cats and Kittens (2003))

Resources

• Frank Kelly Freas - Summary Bibliography @ The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Kelly Freas @ Wikipedia