A "Brown" Xmas

This is a result of a little silly misunderstanding (followed by a bet) with Evan Shaner on Twitter ;)

Marry Xmas from Charlie Brown (and me) :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

The Water of Mars

Guess what I watched on TV last night ;)
What a wonderful Dr Who episode and another stunning performance by David Tennant! I HAD to draw this (see below) while watching the show and later I threw some digi color on it. (above)
Hope you guys dig it.

Cheers,
Francesco

Sesame St. 40th Ann. - Mr Snuffleupagus

A new Sesame St. tribute, a new "click & reveal" post ;).
Click here to "reveal" the invisible Mr Snuffleupagus :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Sesame St. 40th Ann. - Oscar the Grouch

So where's Oscar, you might be askin'. To find out, click here - it was the only way to show this (you'll see why when you get there :))

Cheers,
Francesco

Sesame St. 40th Ann. - Big Bird

Next up Big Bird!
Lots of scrolling on this one ;)

Tune all this week, every day, for a new Sesame St tribute :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Tabatha Taking Over...

I was working on some zorro layouts last night and watching TV and Tabatha was on with her new season on BRAVO (kinda "Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares" but with salons), and I couldn't help to draw her: she has such a characteristic face :)
So she took over my layouts... and the salon she had to fix ;)

Caricatures is a kinda new territory for me so I hope you dig it the same.

Cheers,
Francesco

Edit: here's a colored (and slightly revised) version:

Sesame St. 40th Ann. - Cookie Monster

Well, the 40th Anniversary celebrations are on so I couldn't resist to join in, especially considering the subject matter :D
To start, the Cookie Monster!

Tune all this week, every day, for a new Sesame St tribute :)

Cheers,
Francesco

In the Neck of the Woods

Hi guys,

I am still in the Halloween state of mind, so... ;)
Click on the image for the cinemascope version :)

Cheers,
Francesco

GEN13 in ACTION!!!

Hi guys,

As promised, here's the other GEN13 jam piece done with Steve.
I had a little more fun with this, as you can see ;)
Hope you guys dig it :)

As usual, click on the image for the bigger size.

Cheers,
Francesco

Greetings from La Jolla

Hi guys,

I was able to finish the inks and colors on this collaboration piece with Steven E Gordon right before my pc crashed. Luckily I was also smart enough to back up all files :P
Anyhow, here's the final piece in its entirity. Hope you guys dig it.

I am working on another jam piece with Steve, so stay tuned for more :)

As usual, click on the image for the bigger size.

Cheers,
Francesco

SCALPED: High Lonesome TPB

High Lonesome, the 5th chapter of Jason Aaron's and RM Guera's beutiful noir book "SCALPED", comes out today in the stores. Those of you that follow this blog, now that I was kindly asked to be a guest artist on issue 27, telling the back story of FBI Agent Baylis E. Nitz.

To celebrate the trade (and just because I LOVE drawing me some SCALPED ;)) I did this pinup. It was supposed to be a quick sketch but it got a little out of my hands (as usual happens ;)).

Ok, now close the computer and go buy Vertigo's "High Lonesome" :)

Cheers,
Francesco

GEN 13: Caitlin Fairchild

Every now and then I like to ink someone else pencils, and when that someone else is a really good friend like Steve Gordon (check his website in the link list on the right) then the fun is doubled! :D

After a Batman and a Superman already in our collaboration can, now it's the turn to give some love to the GEN 13 team of young superheroes. To start: Caitlin Fairchild, a very strong young lady indeed :)

More on the way.

Cheers,
Francesco

The Vampire Book

A few months back I was asked by Dorling Kindersley to provide 9 illos about specific vampires from all around the world, and this is one of those. I am showing all the process above (click on the illo for larger view), from rough to color (actually they needed just the b/w inks, the colors are something I added later for fun Wink) for those who like to take a peek at the making of.
Hope you guys dig it.

The book is "The Vampire Book", hardcover, 96 pages packed with tons of photos and illos, and it's available on the DK website (among other bookstores and online places). I just got my comps and it looks awesome! :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Mr Incredible!!!

It's not snowing out there (see my previous post RAIN ;)) but I felt inspired to draw some snow anyway ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

RAIN

Partially inspired by the cloudy morning here.

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

9.9.9.

"9.9.9., what have you DONE?"

Inspired by today's date ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

9.9.9. created by & © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

CRAP!

I am also a big fan of Hellboy (as many of you may know already) so this morning warm up was about the BIG RED :)
The fact that Mike Mignola is gonna be tomorrow at Dragon*Con in artist alley (where I am set up) might be another reason of why I drew this ;)

As usual, click on the image for a bigger view.

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

The SuperDevil!!!

I am a big fan of "Family Guy" and one of the funniest episodes is when Stewie is believed to be possessed and the Griffins are forced to flee in Texas.
One of the best bits of the episode is when we are introduced to the SuperDevil. "The SuperDevil is at least 6 inches taller (than the regular Devil), he seems to have a flying motorcycle and a jar of marmelade that is believed to force you to commit adultery" :D
Here's my version of this guy ;)

As usual, click on the image for a bigger view.

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

FOLLOW ME...

Yep, I too finally joined in that big social phenomenon that is TWITTER. It has been few days already and so far it's not eating too much of my time: planning to keep it that way ;)

Feel free to check it out here if you have some spare time like I do ;)

As usual, click on the image for a bigger view.

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

The Marvel-Disney Universe!

I just read about the news and had to do this right away (really couldn't resist ;))
I may do more if I get chance: these were fun!

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

The Completely Unnecessary Marvel Comics 70th Anniversary Graphic Novel Cover Meme

The awesome Stuart Immonen started this cover meme on his blog.

In brief: you pick a random cover from the Marvel inventory and, based on a word form that cover, a random pic from Flickr and come up with a fictional cover for a contemporary novel.
All details and accurate instructions can be found on Stuart's blog.

Since I too should be focusing on actual work, I decided to join in and this is the result (based on the below Cage cover from 1992).

Ok, back to work now ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

Eye on Garrison

Writer extraordinaire Jeff Mariotte shells out some more info about our upcoming GARRISON mini at Wildstorm in this interview at Newsarama. Check it out!
Since one of the image posted is the cover for issue 2, I thought to share below a bit the WIP the went with it.
1) and 2) are the initial 2 layouts for the cover. Once decided to go with layout 2) I proceeded to do the inks and grayscale (3) and played a bit on the colors (4) .
The result is the cover in blue that you see above.
Hope you guys dig it :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
GARRISON created by, ™ and © 2009 Jeff Mariotte & Francesco Francavilla - © 2009 Wildstorm - DC Comics

Batman in Red

This morning warm up before getting on some Zorro pages. Plus it has been awhile since I drew this guy and I LOVE drawing this guy ;)

And speaking of what inspired Batman, tomorrow Zorro 15 is coming out: make sure to grab a copy, you will not regret it ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

Un Requiem per Santiago

And that's what happens when I need a break from the sequential pages ;)
Plus I really love that Danny Trejo guy :D
I wish I was really directing this movie: now that would be cool.

Click ont he image for a bigger poster.

Ok, back on Zorro now.

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork & "Un Requiem per Santiago" © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

VIKING

Part of a larger illo I can't share as a whole yet. Hope you guys dig it nonetheless :)
As usual, click on the illo for a bigger view.

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

SuperGirl

A recent commission and my very first time drawing this particular character :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

... Today!

Continuation of yesterday post, considering today is the actual anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11.

Click on the image for a 1200x800px Desktop Wallpaper version of this image. :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

40 years ago....

This month is the 40th anniversary of the first human Moon landing, and I couldn't let it pass without paying tribute to one of the mile stone of the science and space exploration.
Why we haven't returned to the Moon since those years is beyond my understanding ;)

Click on the image for a 1200x800px Desktop Wallpaper version of this image. :)

The image is the new top of the news page of my website: it hought it was fitting ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

GARRISON is coming....

And he is bringing FIREWORKS!!! :D

You wanna see 'em? Then check the official preview of the GARRISON covers and artwork over at the Wildstorm Blog.
Other (great) news is that I will be doing some signings at the WS booth during SDCC in a couple of weeks, and we will be giving away big size postcards with the above teaser poster I just did for teasing about the upcoming mini.
So, if you plan to attend SD, make sure to stop by and say hi (and for those who can't, I am going to save a few postcards ;))

Now head to the WS blog and lemme know what you think of GARRISON :)

Have a great 4th July everyone :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
GARRISON created by, ™ and © 2009 Jeff Mariotte & Francesco Francavilla - © 2009 Wildstorm - DC Comics

Happy Canada Day

Happy CANADA Day to all Canadian (and not Canadian) friends out there!!!

Took inspiration from the 1942 version of Johnny Canuck, but if you know me that shouldn't come like a surprise ;)

Enjoy your Holiday, my friends :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

You Need "PROOF"!

Here's a pinup I did for the special issue 25 of Alex Grecian's and Riley Rossmo's "PROOF" comicbook published by Image. Reccomended.

Cheers,
Francesco

Farewell, Michael...

(Click on the image for a bigger view)

I still remember when my dad bought us the very first hi-fi system with record player (NEC - Nippon Electric Company, or something like that). The store that sold me the system had also a huge selection of albums and audio tapes (yeah, that was before the CDs). So my dad said: "Pick two albums, now that you have that player". And I had no doubt about what to pick: Thriller and Off The Wall.

Farewell, Michael.

Francesco

FAIRLANE!

Hi guys,

with the movie coming out this week I was in a Transformers state of mind last night and did a quick take on another classic car (after the Mustang SHelby of few months ago). So please allow me to introduce you to my Transformers version of a classic 1966 Ford Fiarlane :)

Click on the images for a bigger view.

Cheers,
Francesco

Black Beetle @ Heroes!

Hello guys,

I wanted just to let you all know that I am gonna be at Heroes Conthis weekend, and I will have some BB goodies.

I am printing a limited (numbered and signed) 100 copies of the very first Black Beetle ashcan, "No Way Out" (that's the title of the first arc).
It contains the first 5 sequential pages (which you have seen on Pulp Sunday) and a sketchbook section with lots of concepts and illos. The ashcan is limited to 100 copies and I will only bring part of those to Heroes, so I will have a few more for Dragon Con and SDCC and some to sell online to those interested.
The book is fully colored, tip to toe, has 12 pages plus inside covers, and measures approx. 7.5x10.75" (magazine size). You can see the front cover above and the interior front cover below.
All books come with a quick Black Beetle sketch (when purchased from me - I am planning to send some to a few stores without sketch) in the inside back cover (I create a space there for this purpose).
Those who are interested please email me using the contact button via my website.

Other goodies are large prints, 11.7x16.5" & 13x19", archival ink on archival paper, of the cover/movie poster above (email for rates if interested), and other items like the mousepads and shirts which are also available on Zazzle and CafePress (that's where I ordered mine ;)).
Cafe Press
Zazzle
Check Pulp SUnday for pricing info.

Of course, if you are going to be at Heroes, feel free to stop by even if just to say hi :)
See you there tomorrow!!! :)

Cheers,
Francesco




All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
BLACK BEETLE & COLT CITY created by, ™ and © 2009 Francesco Francavilla

Mad Doctors!!!

Hello my firends,

I wanted to let you know I am having a Mad Doctors Week over at Pulp Sunday: every day, all week long, I will be tributing some famous (or infamous ;)) mad scientist from classic horror and sci-fi movies. It's good stuff and it's in the name of Science (gone awfully wrong ;)) so feel free to check it out if you have spare time and you used to love (or hate) those biology classes :)

Today we feature Dr Paul Rigas from "Man Made Monster" (1941).

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
Mad Doctors & Pulp Sunday created by, ™ and © 2009 Francesco Francavilla

Memorial Day

To celebrate today's holiday, here's a pinup I did for the upcoming GRUNTS TPB by Denton, Giffen, Jacobs, and Spikes.

Cheers,
Francesco

Terminator Fire

All these trailers on tv are putting me in a Terminator state of mind ;)
With the movie airing this week in the theaters, I had to do something and I have the feeling there will be more T-art in the next days ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

American Idol 2009

As you may know by now, Last week I was in charge of the animated part of the Ford video with the Idols on the Wed evening result show. Many many hours of work for turning the 3 animations in time before the show aired in prime time, and all was delivered in time thanks also to the help of my good friend (and veteran animator) Steve Gordon.

For those who missed the video last week, here are a couple of links where you can watch the making of and the final aired video.
- making of the video
- video
I am also posting some in-progress work to show what is behind some of the animation work done last week.

Hope you all dig it and be sure to tune in on Fox this evening and tomorrow to find out who is American Idol 2009.

Cheers,
Francesco

Star Trek: Dr McCoy

Hello,

after wrapping up the American Idol week, I finally had time to draw the last piece of my Star Trek tribute: Dr McCoy. And below you can see the sum of all the pieces.
Hope you enjoyed the gallery of portrait and will enjoy the result puzzle as well :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Star Trek: LT Sulu

The third portrait of this series is dedicated to George Takei as USS Enterprise Lieutenant Hikaro Sulu.

Part 3 of 4. One more to go ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

Star Trek: Capt. Kirk

ANd here's William Shatner in his younger years as Capt of the USS Enterprise James T. Kirk.

You can clearly start to see a pattern here ;)

Part 2 of 4.

Cheers,
Francesco