Francesco Francavilla is an Italian comic book artist known for his creator-owned series The Black Beetle and pulp-inspired comic covers. Other notable works include The Black Coat (which he co-created), Dynamite's Zorro series, and his recent run on Detective Comics with Scott Snyder and Jock.
Career
Francesco Francavilla made his professional comics debut in the Italian comics anthology Amazing Comics in 2006.
Within the industry he has become known for his pulp and retro-inspired style. He runs a blog, Pulp Sunday, dedicated to this kind of work. His cover work is particularly noteworthy, he even won an Eisner for it in 2012.
He has worked as an interior artist for both Marvel Comics (Black Panther: The Man without Fear, Captain America and Bucky, Hawkeye) and DC Comics (Detective Comics for The Black Mirror story arc, which won the 2012 Eisner for best ongoing series). Most recently he has been focusing on The Black Beetle, a series he originally created for his Pulp Sunday blog, which is now being published by Dark Horse Comics. This series has already had wide critical acclaim and has been made an ongoing series as a part of Dark Horse Comics' superhero push.
Bibliography
Interior work
- The Black Coat (with Adam Cogan and Ben Lichius, Ape Entertainment):
- A Call to Arms #1-4 (2006)
- Or Give Me Death #1 (2007)
- Fear Agent #11: "Along Come a Spider" (with Rick Remender, Image, 2007)
- 24Seven Volume 2: "Confession" (script and art, anthology graphic novel, Image, 2007)
- Left on Mission #1-5 (with Chip Mosher, Boom! Studios, 2007)
- Flare Adventures #19: "Into the Black Forest, an Adventure of Chrissie Claus" (with Dennis Mallonee, Heroic Publishing, 2007)
- Sorrow #1-4 (with Rick Remender and Seth Peck, Image, 2007â€"2008)
- Zorro #1-8, 15-20 (with Matt Wagner, Dynamite, 2008â€"2010)
- Frank Frazetta's Dracula Meets the Wolfman (with Steve Niles, one-shot, Image, 2009)
- Scalped #27: "The Ballad of Baylis Earl Nitz" (with Jason Aaron, Vertigo, 2009)
- Garrison #1-6 (with Jeff Mariotte, Wildstorm, 2010)
- Detective Comics #871-872, 874-875, 879, 881 (with Scott Snyder and Jock, DC Comics, 2011)
- Black Panther (with David Liss, Marvel):
- "Urban Jungle" (in The Man without Fear #513-515 and 517-518, 2011)
- "Fear and Loathing in Hell's Kitchen" (in The Man without Fear #521-523, 2011)
- "Spider-Island" (in The Most Dangerous Man Alive #524, 2011)
- Outlaw Territory Volume 2: "Lullaby" (script and art, anthology graphic novel, Image, 2011)
- Captain America (Marvel):
- "Old Wounds" (with Ed Brubaker and James Asmus, in #625-628, 2011â€"2012)
- "Captain America and Black Widow" (with Cullen Bunn, in #636-640, 2012â€"2013)
- The Black Beetle (script and art, Dark Horse):
- Night Shift (in Dark Horse Presents #11-13, 2012)
- No Way Out #1-4 (2013)
- Necrologue #1-5 (2013-2014)
- Swamp Thing #10: "Arcane's Lullaby" (with Scott Snyder, DC Comics, 2012)
- Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #5: "Dark Agnes: Sword Woman" (with Paul Tobin, 2012)
- Hawkeye (Marvel):
- #10 (with Matt Fraction, in 2013)
- "Then Came Barney" (with Matt Fraction, in #12, 2013)
- Afterlife with Archie (Archie Comics, #1-7 with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 2013-14)
Cover work
- Zorro #9-11, 13-14 (Dynamite, 2008â€"2009)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly #1 (Dynamite, 2009)
- The Perhapanauts: Halloween Spooktacular #1 (Image, 2009)
- Hack/Slash: The Series #32 (Devil's Due, 2010)
- Green Hornet: Year One #2-10, 12 (Dynamite, 2010â€"2011)
- Kato Origins #1-11 (Dynamite, 2010â€"2011)
- Sherlock Holmes: Year One #1-6 (Dynamite, 2011)
- Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive #525-529 (Marvel, 2011â€"2012)
- The Lone Ranger & Zorro: The Death of Zorro #1-5 (Dynamite, 2011)
- Hellboy: The Fury #1 (Dark Horse, 2011)
- B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Monsters #1 (Dark Horse, 2011)
- Warlord of Mars: Fall of Barsoom #1-3 (Dynamite, 2011)
- Baltimore: The Curse Bells #1 (Dark Horse, 2011)
- Abe Sapien: The Devil Does Not Jest #1 (Dark Horse, 2011)
- Pigs #2 (Image, 2011)
- Pilot Season: Fleshdigger #1 (Top Cow, 2011)
- The Last of the Greats #1 (Image, 2011)
- Dark Shadows #1-ongoing (Dynamite, 2011â€"...)
- Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist #1-ongoing (Dynamite, 2011â€"...)
- Lone Ranger #1-ongoing (Dynamite, 2011â€"...)
- Archie #627-630 (Archie Comics, 2012)
- Lord of the Jungle #2-6 (Dynamite, 2012)
- Near Death #6-11 (Image, 2012)
- The Shadow #1, 5-ongoing (Dynamite, 2012â€"...)
- The Spider #1-ongoing (Dynamite, 2012â€"...)
- Smoke and Mirrors #3 (IDW Publishing, 2012)
- Mind the Gap #2 (Image, 2012)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #4 (IDW Publishing, 2012)
- American Vampire #30 (Vertigo, 2012)
- Resurrection Man #0, 12 (DC Comics, 2012)
- Marvel Zombies Halloween #1 (Marvel, 2012)
- Life with Archie #23 (Archie Comics, 2012)
- Masks #1 (Dynamite, 2012)
- Sherlock Holmes: The Liverpool Demon #1-5 (Dynamite, 2012â€"2013)
- Mars Attacks #6 (IDW Publishing, 2012)
- Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time #1-12 (IDW Publishing, 2013)
- New Crusaders #5 (Red Circle, 2013)
- Uncanny X-Men #1 (Marvel, 2013)
- Fantomex MAX #1-4 (Marvel, 2013)
Awards
- 2012: Won "Favourite Newcomer Artist" Eagle Award
- 2012: Won "Best Cover Artist" Eisner Award
Notes
References
- Francesco Francavilla at the Grand Comics Database
External links
- Official website
- Francesco Francavilla at the Comic Book DB
- Pulp Sunday
- The Art of Francesco Francavilla
- Comic-Twart: Francesco Francavilla
- An Audio Interview with Francesco Francavilla, Word Balloon, May 25, 2011