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

Start Trek: Mr Spock

With the imminent release of the new movie right behind the corner, I decided to take a look at the original cast members, starting with our beloved Vulcan :)

Part 1 of 4.

Cheers,
Francesco

Pioneer Times!

I just realized I have been pushing a bit on the horror side in these latest posts ;)
To show I am still a nice guy (and not a creepy one ;)) here's some layouts for a little story I am doing for young kids. :D

Yes, I am that soft and cute inside ;)

CHeers,
Francesco

GUTWRENCHER!

Here's a pinup I just did for the upcoming TPB of Denton & Niles' scary and creepy creation.

CHeers,
Francesco

28 Weeks Later

Back from the FX show (good to see you, Craig! :)) and starting on a very busy week but I wanted to say hi and share this quickie inspired by the 28 weeks later music playing on my radio.

Cheers,
Francesco

P.S> Click on the images for bigger versions.

A Very Special Easter EGG

...for a very Happy Easter, everyone! :)

CHeers,
Francesco

MAX MALONE Vs BLACK BEETLE

Hi guys,

for those who don't check my other blog, Pulp Sunday, I am running a little poll to decide which one of my creations is gonna get my very first webcomic treatment: Black Beetle or Max Malone. Both characters have a very strong pulp influence, but hopefully they will also have some original touch to it.
To know more (and to cast your vote) click on the Pulp Sunday link on the right of the screen (or click here).
Te above is just a teaser I did today for Max Malone.

Cheers,
Francesco

Click on the teaser image above for the colored, bigger version.

EXTERMINATE!!!

Just a morning non-sense warmup before getting started on some more pages ;)
I guess I am calling this one... MODEK? :)

Cheers,
Francesco

P.S> Click on the images for bigger versions.

GARRISON

So, the news is finally out, even if was half hidden in a small blurb (about the recent Phoenix Con) on the Newsarama blog.
I can finally reveal what I have been working on since beginning of the new year (and still working on it as I type this): it's GARRISON, a creator-owned 6 issue mini from Jeff Mariotte and me that will published by Wildstorm pretty soon (I hope ;)).
The pitch? In Jeff's words: "It's a near-future action epic about the most dangerous man in the world, Lester Garrison, who happens to look like someone you'd find at the tractor pull on Friday night."

Jeff is not kidding when talking about action: I think it's the most action packed book I have drawn to date (and my past books had lots of action in them anyway), plus other cool, noirish, and hi-tech elements related to a colossal manhunt.
This book is anything but boring, I can promise you that :)

I can't show any of the artowrk yet, not until we get the ok to show by DC Comics, but you can trust me when I say this is gonna be a really fun ride :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Click on the teaser image above for the colored, bigger version.

MOD-OCK!!!

Just some craziness done for the March Modok Madness.
Thanks to the good Pedro for inviting me to join the fun :)

Cheers,
Francesco

P.S> Click on the image for bigger version.

Fire Rides With Me!

No, it's not the new Twin Peaks movie (even if that would be cool ;)).
Just taking a break and having fun in between sequential pages. :D

Cheers,
Francesco

P.S> Click on the images for bigger versions.

Wolverine and the X-Men

Since today it's Friday and it's the day when, each week, there is a new episode of WOlverine and the X-Men on NToon (8 pm), I thought to share some of the work I did as storyboard artist on this animated series. In particular I am sharing a bit of my process below and will share actual boards once some of the episodes have aired on tv (I don't want to spoil any of the stories ;))
Once again I want to thank my good friend and wonderful director Steve Gordon for letting me part of this successful series, which I warmly suggest you to watch if you aren't watching it already ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

The One

Please don't ask ;) :P

Cheers,
Francesco

American Idol

The most watched show on TV is gonna kick start a new season next week (tonight and tomorrow night there is the selection of the remaining 6 of the 12 contestants running for the title this season), so I thought to share some of the work I did for last season show.


As some of you know, during the result show every week they run a video/commercial of Ford with the Idols. One of the videos, last year, was about a comic artist (one of the idols) whose pages were coming alive, and the producers asked me to provide all the comic artwork that appears in that video. You can imagine my reaction when I heard that my artwork was going to air in prime time, on national television, seen by millions of Americans: very excited and also a bit scared ;)
Anyhow you can see the video here , on my website, and attached to this post you can see some of the artwork produced for the video (I did around 10 full pages of comics plus concept art and animations).

Cheers,
Francesco

FIRE!!!

Hi guys,

And here is the color version that will be in the book: I really wanted to play on the "fire" element so I hope I succeded in my intentions. Again, a big THANKS to Andy for inviting me to contribute to his awesome Firebreather :)

Next up (Tomorrow): AMERICAN IDOL!!!! :D

Cheers,
Francesco