Green Hornet Year One #12 & Lone Ranger/Zorro #1 Covers

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Hello Pulp Friends,

Let's start a new year of pulp goodness with a double cover post that we can safely title: "Family Business" :)
Above is the cover for issue 12 of Matt Wagner's Green hornet Year One, which concludes the second arc of this critically acclaimed tale of the first year of operation of the GH and Kato.
And to keep it in the "family" the second cover (below) is for Green Hornet's gran gran pa: The Lone Ranger, here in the first crossover with another favorite of mine (and yours): Zorro.

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The crossover is a 4 issue mini written by Ande Parks and titled, sadly, "Death of Zorro". Don Diego is here in his late 60s and will ask for Lone Ranger help when things go bad.
Since Dynamite solicited the book, I read a lot of people thinking this mini means no more ZORRO YEAR ONE.
No worries, this is a completely different story, and last time I talked with Matt, he is still planning to pick up from were we left in issue 14. Zorro Year One is on hiatus but is not over :)

Have a wonderful Pulp Sunday everyone :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

Green Hornet Year One #8 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

Here's a sneak preview of my cover of Green Hornet Year One #8, in September's Previews for solicitation: hope you guys enjoy it :)

Have a wonderful Pulp Sunday everyone :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

Green Hornet Year One #7 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

As promised, here's my cover for issue 7 of Green Hornet Year One, now solicited in August Previews. The book is having awesome reviews all around so I am hoping you guys are picking it up. :)

Have a wonderful Pulp Sunday everyone :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

Green Hornet Year One #6 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

With the new Green Hornet movie trailer hitting the web, I thought it was appropriate to show my cover for Green Hornet Year One #6 which is solicited in Luly's Previews (in stores tomorrow).

As you know, I tried to give a movie poster feel to the whole run of covers for this arc, and since this is the conclusion of the first arc, I thought to include some credits on the cover as well, just like you would see on a movie poster :)
Hope you guys dig it :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

Green Hornet Year One #5 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

Green Hornet Year One (and related crew) gets some love in the current issue of Wizard magazine (click on the image below to read the article) so what better to celebrate the event by showing the cover I did for issue 5 ?(which is solicited in June's Previews)
Hope you guys dig it :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla


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GARRISON #2 & GREEN HORNET Y1 #3

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Hello guys,

It's comicbook day and I have a couple of suggestion for ya ;)

First, WildStorm's GARRISON #2 (of 6), my and Jeff Mariotte's new creator owned title (and as such it has a special place in my heart :)). Above is an exclusive preview of the first 6 pages just to give a glimpse of the rollercoaster action you guys are gonna get from now until the explosive issue 6 (which concludes the mini).
A huge thanks to all of you who picked up issue 1 and helped spread the good word about it. Hope to see you and many more picking up issue 2: this is gonna be FUN! :)

Second, Dynamite's GREEN HORNET YEAR ONE #3, by Matt Wagner and Aaron Campbell and me at the coloring duties. Below you can see a preview of the pages and the 2 covers (one by yours truly :))
Some really good PULP fun (I know you guys like that) so make sure to pick this up as well while you are in the shop :)

Cheers,
Francesco

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


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Green Hornet Year One #4 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

we continue this Pulp Fest Week with this exclusive preview of the cover of Green Hornet Year One #4. Issue 2 just hit the stores last week and really nice reviews about the series keep coming in, so I hope you are picking this up. It has awesome covers from Cassaday and yours truly, pulp wiritng by Matt Wagner, pulp art by Aaron Campbell, and pulp colors by yours truly. It's good stuff all around :)

In related news (related to Pulp Fest Week) I am having a little poll goin on twitter and would like to extend it in here as well, so here we go:
As part of Pulp Fest Week I am planning to pick and draw a pulp character among all those that will be suggeste on twitter AND on Pulp Sunday (reply to this post). Put in your request before Wed evening and I will choose what to draw among all the entries and post it in here on Friday this week.
Characters can be from comicbook, novels, radio show, movies, anything that dates back to the 30s or 40s (I am kinda narrowing the range so to have a more limited range where to choose from).

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

ZORRO: The Conclusion!

Hello Pulp Friends,

Zorro #20 is out in stores today: as I mentioned earlier, this is definitely my best and favrite issue yet, maybe because it's the conclusion of the third arc and the title is taking a break, so Matt and I wanted to leave everyone with a good read and some cool Zorro action :)

The preview of the first 5 pages is on several websites online, so here's an exclusive preview just for Pulp Sunday: the back cover and page 18, just to tease you on the content of this book :)

Hope you guys enjoy the read :)

Cheers,
Francesco



Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

Green Hornet #3 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

I am so sorry but - as some of you who follow me on Twitter may already know - I had some major computer crash this past week that really put me behind on some work, so I have been spending most of the time these past few days setting up my laptop for work (with all the compatibility issues) and catching up on projects.
I know this is the second week without a new BB page but sometime real life (and freaking technology) gets in the way of the fun.
Hope you all will forgive me.

To make up for the missing page, here's an absolute preview: the cover for Green Hornet Year One #3, from the initial pencil sketch to the rough color pass to the final inks (below) and final cover in color (above).
Hope you guys dig it.

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

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Putting the Green in Green Hornet

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Hello Pulp Friends,

CBR had an interview with Matt Wagner and John Cassadey about Green Hornet Year One yesterday on their website, and they were showcasing a few colored pages from issue 1, so I think it's cool if I show some of my color work over Aaron Campbell's beutiful inks in here as well. You guys are in for a treat, so make sure to pre-order this book :)

Click on the image for a closer look and hope you like what you see :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Green Hornet #2 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

I can finally reveal my cover for issue 2 of the Green Hornet Year One series :)

When Dynamite asked me to provide alternate covers to Matt Wagner's GH Year One books, I decided to give to this whole run (of covers) a pulpy, old movie poster feel to it. Hope you guys are digging it becuase there will be more in that style where this is from :)
Green Hornet Year One #2 will be in stores in May so look for it in March's Previews.

Can't wait to show some of the colors I have done on interiros of #1.

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

Zorro #19

Hello Pulp Friends,

today issue 19 of Zorro hits the shelves and I wanted to give a little preview of it in here as well. Issue 19 and upcoming #20 are my best Zorro books to date so I really hope you guys are picking these up becuase you are going to really enjoy them, I promise :)

This whole third arc has been so much fun to draw, specially thanks to Matt who came up with scripts that made me play with old horror EC styles and classic old western settings. FUN! :)

Anyhow, enough talking. Head to the stores, pick the book and lemme know if you agree or disagree with me ;)

Cheers,
Francesco







Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

The Green Hornet Is Coming!

Hello Pulp Friends,

because i have been out of town this weekend for the Charlotte MiniCon (again many thanks to Shelton Drum, Linda, Dustin and everyone else for inviting me and my wife at the show and for gifting us such a lovely time :)) I haven't had time to work on a new Kara Bocek page (which will be back next week).
I did have time, though, to do this little teaser illo to finally make a big annoucement (well, it's big for me being the pulp fan you all know): I was asked by Dynamite and Matt Wagner to be part of the new pulp adventures of Green Hornet Year One, which will be on the shelves this April. While I am not drawing the book (the very talented Aaron Campbell is the artist for the title) I will be coloring it and will be providing alternate covers starting from issue 2 (with Matt's covers, just like we have done on Zorro).
Matt and Dynamite were very happy with my colors on Zorro so they asked me if I was willing to color the GH book, and since I am a big fan of the Green Hornet I couldn't pass on the chance to be involved with such cool project (I have seen the pages and read the script and it IS a cool project).

Can't show the interiors colored yet or the covers yet, so I did the above illo this afternoon to go with the annoucement.
I will make sure to share more as soon as I can (very excited :))

Have a great Pulp Sunday evening everyone :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

Zorro Salutes

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Hello Pulp Friends,

I recently joined a group of fellow artists who jam weekly on a specific character. The blog is Comic Twart (Twitter Art) and the first week topic/character was (HA!) Zorro! Of course I felt like I was playing in my own backyard ;)
With issue 19 (coming out later this month) and issue 20 (coming in late Feb) wrapping up my third arc (and second run) on Zorro, I decided to partecipate to the jam with one of the pages from issue 20 that just came out from the oven. It seemed to fit the ending of the arc (even if that is NOT the last page of the issue ;)) with a nice shot of Zorro saluting and Tornado rearing :)
Please check Comic Twart for more zorros from some talented people.

Also please come by and say hi if you are gonna be in Charlotte and surroundings this coming Saturday: I will be at the Charlotte MiniCon with goodies and always a big smile :D See you there!

Cheers,
Francesco

KARA BOCEK, BLACK BEETLE & COLT CITY created by, ™ and © 2006-2010 Francesco Francavilla

Riding Tornado!

I bet you have never seen Zorro riding THIS Tornado ;)
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Just one more reason to not miss issue 18 coming out today in the stores.
Matt came up with a structure similiar to issue 15, with tales of the Fox told (and quite filtered) by a bunch of peones around a campfire. Campfire tales, that is, allowing me to have MUCH fun drawing it. Thank you, Matt :)

Below the back cover for issue 17 that teased on the tales you will find in #18.
Hope you guys enjoy the read :)

Happy Holidays!

Cheers,
Francesco

WEREFOX!!!

WEREFOX!
Where? In issue 18 of Zorro coming out tomorrow, that's where! :D
Definitely click on the image to see it in a IMAX version :D

Seriously, I got my comps today and this issue is FUN!
That Matt Wagner dude can write, and that artist is half decent too ;)

I will share more tomorrow if you are not convinced yet.

Cheers,
Francesco

SHHHHhhhhhh!

While waiting for Zorro #18 to hit the shelves, here's a sneak peek at #19 ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla

Scary Tales of Zorro!

Hello my friends,

I thought this is the perfect month to give you all a sneak peek at the back cover of Zorro #17 (that will be out in a few weeks), anticipating what comes next in Zorro #18.

FUN! :)

Cheers,
Francesco

The Shadow of the Fox

Hello Pulp Friends,

here's the front cover for Zorro #19 (to be released in December) I just finished. How you guys are liking this new arc? Lemme hear it from you :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla

You're Invited...

... to General Rafael Mancado's exclusive party.
To make sure to not miss it, head to the store this coming Wednesday and pick up issue 15 of Zorro, the first of the third arc I am drawing.
I got my comps yesterday and the book looks awesome: I really would love to hear from you guys if you decide to pick it up (you are gonna to, right? ;))
Here's pages 4 and 5 to get a glimpse of the party: layouts and inks below, and final pages with colors above. Click on them for bigger versions.
Hope you show up and enjoy it :)

Have a Pulp Sunday everyone!

Cheers,
Francesco





All artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla