Oli Frey
| Oliver Frey | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 30, 1948 Zurich, Switzerland |
| Other names | Zack |
| Alma mater | Famous Artists School |
| Known for | Science-fiction illustration, erotic comics |
| Spouse(s) | Roger Kean |
| Website |
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Oliver "Oli" Frey (born 30 June 1948 in Zurich, Switzerland) is an artist. A resident of Britain, he is known for his book and magazine illustrations – especially for British computer magazines of the 1980s – and erotic illustrations and comics (under the pen name Zack) – especially in British gay male porn magazines of the 1970s and 1980s.
Frey was born in Zurich, Switzerland on 30 June 1948. He grew up fluent in Italian and German. His family moved to Britain in 1956 but subsequently returned to Switzerland. During his high school years in Switzerland, Frey enrolled in the American Famous Artists School correspondence course.
After spending six months in the Swiss army and dropping out of Berne University, Frey moved back to Britain and started a two-year course at the London Film School, during which he supported himself with freelance work, including illustrating War Picture Library comic books. As a child Frey had loved The Eagle comics magazine, and as an adult worked on the 1980s revival, drawing the strip Dan Dare. Also during the 1970s, he illustrated for IPC Media's Look and Learn magazine, including the strip The Trigan Empire. He was commissioned to create 1930s-era comic book art for the pre-title sequence of the 1978 movie Superman.
Through the late 1970s and the 1980s Frey was a prolific creator of gay erotic art, usually published under the pen name Zack. These included a comics series featuring a big, muscular bad-boy hero named "Rogue" for HIM Magazine, a monthly gay male pornography publication which he and his partner Roger Kean owned, along with related titles. He also produced, edited, and illustrated several issues of Man-to-Man Magazine. Frey illustrated twelve of the HIM Libraries, the first two written by Kean, the remainder by various authors who submitted manuscripts. The company was raided by the police in 1981, and all of its stock was destroyed under then-current laws. His gay pornographic work was also featured on front covers and in volumes of the Meatmen series of gay erotic comics. Russell T. Davies, writer of the British television series Queer as Folk, praised Frey's serial "The Street" as an important influence on his ground-breaking gay TV drama.
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