Iron Man!

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Hello guys,

How about an Iron Man Week to celebrate the release of IM2? :)
To start, an oldie that probaly the 95% of you haven't seen yet, with a new coat of paint just for the occasion ;)
LOVE to draw the ole TIN version of this guy (as you will see ;))

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.

HellBoy's "Crap"!

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Hello guys,

and let's wrap this week with one of my fav HB illo (I did last year) not everyone might have seen it yet. I thought it is a perfect ending of the Hellboy week :)
Since everyone enjoyed this, stay tuned for some more HB related "specials", very soon ;)
Thanks for the love, everyone, and now go read some Mignola's Hellboy goodness :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.
HELLBOY © 2010 Mike Mignola

HellBoy Vs Nazis

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Hello guys,

couldn't let this week go without some evil nazi zombie, could I?
SO here's a quickie (it's one of those days...)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.
HELLBOY © 2010 Mike Mignola

HellBoy in Mexico

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Hello guys,

The new book "HELLBOY IN MEXICO" by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben was released today, so i thought to play close to the topic of the book with this tribute. I haven't read (or picked up) the book yet, so all of this is just a guess, a Mexican guess, that's it :)

Now let's all go tot he store to pick up that bad boy, if you haven't done it yet :)

Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla. HELLBOY © 2010 Mike Mignola

HellBoy and "L'Isola del Terrore"

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Hello guys,

I plan to come back to this when I have a little more time and "dress' it as a movie poster, but for now I think it will do as is ;)
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you HELLBOY AND L'ISOLA DEL TERRORE! :)
Hope you guys enjoy it and come back tomorrow for some Mexican Amor :D

Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla. HELLBOY © 2010 Mike Mignola

HellBoy Vs The Giant Eye

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Hello guys,

With the blessing of Dark Horse, I am dedicating this whole week to one of my favorite comic characters: HELLBOY! :)
Been a huge fan of the Big Red and its incredibly talented dad, Mike Mignola, since the beginning and with the release of a new new HB book this week, I thought it was appropriate to pay tribute by posting some new and some (almost) never seen before HellBoy artwork I have done here and there :)

To start, one of my fav illos (from 2007): Hellboy Vs the Giant Eye (with included lovecraftian tentacles ;))

Hope you guys enjoy it and tune in tomorrow for some mo' Hellboy :)

Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla. HELLBOY © 2010 Mike Mignola

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VICTORY...

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Inspired by last night episode of Dr Who featuring Daleks and WW2 :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.

GARRISON is here!

Hello guys,

Yep, this above is me pimping the book ;)
GARRISON #1 is finally out: go and grab a copy and enjoy the read (or call the store and tell them to save you a copy if you can go today ;))
I really hope you guys dig the book: being a creator owned project for me, I have a special fond for it so I wish the book to do well :)
If you need more previews, just click on the images here and you'll get it :)

Thanks,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla. GARRISON © 2010 Jeff Mariotte & Francesco Francavilla


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Nazgûl

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I was playong the LOTR Return Of The King Soundtrack while doing some storyboards and this guy showed up ;)
The risks to listen to soundtracks while working...

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.


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Sammina "Bellella" Francavilla

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It's a sad day for us: our 17 year old cat Sam has left us to go to kitties heaven.
She has been with my wife since she was born and with me for 10 years now.
I am gonna miss her coming by at noon, in my office, reminding me it was lunch time with a couple of miaow and a WTF look if I wasn't getting up and go to get us all some lunch.

You have been good to us, Sammina, and we will miss you greatly.


Francesco & Lisa

Photo © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.

The Return of SITHursday!

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It's Thursday and had fun tackling this guy again, so - dedicated to LucasFilm, Dark Horse, and all the Star Wars fans - I give you SITHursday again :)

Maybe one day I will see this character design I created put to use: now that would be cool :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.

More MM...

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More about this guy. Hopefully I will eb able to reveal his story soon :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork & Character Design © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.

A New Villain...

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Can't say too much about this yet.
I hope you "like" it anyway ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.

HAWKMAN!

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It is HAWKMAN week at Comic Twart so after offering my tribute the other day (see below), I felt inspired to do another piece, above, more some sort of portrait/closeup this time.
Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did drawing it :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.

That Thing...

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Just a little piece of a larger picture that will be revelead a little later ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.

GARRISON Will Knock...

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... Your Socks Off!!! :)

with issue 3 being solicited in April Previews (you can see cover & solicitation also on the Wildstorm website), I thought to put together another little teaser (using actual panels from issue 3) of my new creator owned mini GARRISON coming out next month.
Hope you guys check the mini out and help me spread the word: this is gonna be a fun ride, I promise you.
And it's all done (I finished the mini in 2009) so you know you will get your fix monthly without interruptions :) You can't beat that! ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.
GARRISON created by, ™ and © 2010 Jeff Mariotte & Francesco Francavilla & DC Comics

Chris' Basement

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I could't help to do this quick vignette after reading the recent TWITTER posts of my good friend and super talented artist Chris Samnee :)
Click on the image at your risk (no worries, Safe for Work ;))

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.

SITHursday

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If Dark Horse says that this is Sithursday, then Sithursday is ;)

Hope you dig this quickie :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.

Hulk Smash!

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Inspired by the recent PC issues, here's something I doodled while dealing with multiple drivers installations and incompatibilities.
It kinda reflects my mood of the past few days ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

* maybe I will sneak in a couple of more superheroes this week, not sure yet ;)


Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.

Super Olympics: Black Racer

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Thanks to Jack Kirby's fantastic imagination, I am closing* this edition of Super (Winter) Olypics (while the closing ceremonies is still fresh in our minds) with a character that uses the ski gears for real in his adventures: the Black Racer!

Cheers,
Francesco

* maybe I will sneak in a couple of more superheroes this week, not sure yet ;)


Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla.