Fantasy art has a rich history, starting in 1923 with Weird Tales magazine and gaining popularity in the 1960s with The Lord of the Rings and Conan the Barbarian. The genre expanded in the 1970s with Dungeons & Dragons and Star Wars, attracting a new generation of fans in the 1990s through trading card games. Today, artists like Frank Frazetta continue to be highly valued, and fans eagerly anticipate TASCHEN''s History of Fantasy Art, celebrating iconic artists like Boris Vallejo, Rodney Matthews, and HR Giger.