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The magazine also featured his sci-fi comic 'Terminal Man'scripted by Kelvin Gosnell. Born in Switzerland, Oliver Frey a.k.a. At the time he wanted to become a movie director, so he studied at the London Film School.

Frey's great-grandfather was a portrait and landscape painter who later spent many years in the United States.

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Oliver Frey was a Swiss-British comic artist, illustrator and poster designer. He instantly recognized 'Dan Dare', started reading and became a lifelong fan of the series. How many of the readers of Dan Dare or CRASH knew at the time that the artist they so admired had a second, equally prolific career in gay porn?

The child had no idea who Dan Dare gay, but once they checked into their hotel in England, he found issues of Eagle Magazine underneath the cushions of the sofa. Cover illustrations for War Picture Library. Inspired by the 'James Bond' film franchise - the main character was the Swiss super-spy Apple-Apple 7 James Tell - the films were popular enough to receive a limited screening.

But since Switzerland is a quadrilingual county, he also spoke German fluently. Later in life, Frey credited Famous Artists as the best learning school he could ever imagine. As a thirteen-year old, he did receive an encouraging reply from Don Lawrenceat the time the artist of 'The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire' for Look and Learn magazine.

As a teenager, he had made two amateur movies with a Super-8 camera, starring his sister and brother. He was known for his zack and magazine illustrations, especially for British gay magazines of the s. Under the pen artist Zack, he became known for his zack illustrations and erotic comics in British gay male porn magazines of the s and s.

[1]. Innumerable illustrations poured from his pen and brush for British magazines HIM International, Vulcan, Teenage Dreams, the HIM Gay Library series, and Mister magazine. Oliver Frey (/ freɪ /; 30 June – 21 August ) was a Swiss artist, who was based in the United Kingdom.

Inthe Frey family moved to the United Kingdom. With his husband Roger Kean as scriptwriter, he drew the wild adventures of the seductive hunk 'Rogue'the more realistic but short-lived gay romance story 'The Street' and the titillating 'Bike Boy'.

Oliver Frey, better known to his many admirers under his pseudonym Zack, grew up in Zürich, Switzerland, the eldest of three children. By now, Frey had enough knowledge of the English language to enroll in the Famous Artists School, an American correspondence course with its European homebase in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

For HIM he created the. Going to school in Wembley, young Frey became even more fascinated with the comic, since all his classmates read Eagle. As a teenager, he already tried to apply for jobs at various comic magazines, including the Eagle, but all rejected him.

Frey also illustrated several educational-historical books by Kean, of which the 'The Complete Chronicle of the Emperors of Rome' and 'Living in the Ancient World' series are the best known. He grew up a fluent Italian speaker, since his parents hailed from Ticino where Swiss-Italian is the language, but schooled in Zürich he also learned German and French.

Oliver Frey was a Swiss-British comic artist, illustrator and poster designer. Frey was additionally a notable creator of gay erotic comicspublished in HIM Magazine and the 'Meatmen' comic book series. He started copying the drawings and considered becoming a comic artist himself.

During their flight there, the cring gay old boy was given a badge depicting comic character 'Dan Dare' created by Frank Hampson. A few years later, his family moved back to Switzerland. Zack, ended up in London and, after supporting himself while attending the London Film School by illustrating war comics, he plunged into gay art and publishing.

Students received drawing lessons by mail, and then had to mail their graphic "homework" back to have it inspected and corrected. Frey and Kean were also driving forces behind the publishing companies Newsfield Publications, Thalamus and Reckless Books.

Working under the name ‘Zack’, Frey was a prolific illustrator of gay erotica in varying levels of explicitness from the s onwards. In Januaryhe moved back to the United Kingdom, where he stayed the rest of his life. His parents came from the Italian-speaking canton Ticino, so his native tongue was Italian.

After fulfilling his military service with the Signals Division in the high Alps, Frey studied at the University of Bern, but eventually dropped out. Working for children's magazine publishers like IPC and DC Thomson during the s and s, he drew artists of the 'War Picture Library', briefly succeeded Don Lawrence on the dystopian.