Several book collections of Zack's artwork have been published, such as 'Bikeboy', 'Bikeboy Rides Again' and 'Hot for Boys'.
The latter served as the inspiration for the BBC television series 'Queer as Folk'. He made drawings and comic stories like 'The Street' for sex magazine Him. In the late 1990s he was publishing director with Thalamus Publishing in Shropshire, which specialized in illustrated historical reference titles.īesides mainstream comics, Frey has also worked on a variety of comics for the gay community, using the pen name Zack. He co-founded Newsfield Publications with his brother, Franco, providing hundreds of covers and illustrations for their many gaming and horror magazines. This Frazetta is a one-of-a-kind pieceyou can see the white out above Daisy Mae’s cleavage linethe magazine editors. He drew two of his favourite boyhood comic strips, 'The Trigan Empire' (1976-77) for Look and Learn and 'Dan Dare' (1982-83) for The Eagle. An original illustration created for the Decemedition of Life Magazine by legendary comic artist Frank Frazetta showing the Al Capp studio characters Daisy Mae and L’il Abner. After briefly running a film company in Switzerland, Frey returned to the UK and worked as a full-time comic strip artist and illustrator.
He studied film at the London School of Film Technique and began drawing comic strips to earn a living, working for Fleetway's picture libraries. Oliver Frey was born in Switzerland, but has lived in the UK for many years.
