Pick Your Own Fear

Hello Pulp friends :)

October is just behind the corner, and as you all know, I always like to celebrate the Halloween month with something special like the "Sisterhood Of The Witches" of last year and the "SchermoScuro" of 2006.
So I decided to let you guys decide what it's gonna be this year :)
Below you will find 4 options, numbered. Please let me hear from you which one you would like to see from me, and please vote in mass, let me hear from as many of you as possible: this is a case were abstinence from voting is not that cool ;)
Of course, in addition to the chosen topic, I will make room here and there for more Mad Doctors and more Witches, 'cause they are never enough, right? :)
Voting ends on October 1st.

Here are the topics:

1) HAMMER OKTOBER
A tribute to the famous British gothic movies

2) UNIVERSAL FEAR
Classic Universal Horror - there is more to say? ;)

3) A CREEPY HALLOWEEN
A short original sequential tale,
written and drawn by me, in the vein
of classic CREEPY and EC magazines

4) BLOODY PULP
(Fake) pulp covers of Fear and Terror

Have a Pulp Sunday everyone!

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla

MagmaCron & MechaMan!

Hello, Pulp Friends,

here are the final 2 covers for that deliciously retro pulp sci-fi role game books: the MagmaCron and the MechaMan! As mentioned before, these were tons of fun to work on and I hope you guys dig 'em as much as I do :D

Stay tuned and have a Pulp Sunday everyone! :)

Cheers,
Francesco



Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
"Galactic Adventures in the Fourth DImension of the Forbidden Zone" © 2009 Killer B Games.

Dragon Man!

Hello, Pulp Friends,

here's the second cover (in a set of 4 covers) for the Pulp Sci-Fi role game books I was mentioning earlier this week. This cover features one of the dreaded Dragon Men of Hydrus! A pretty mean (and ugly) dude ;)
Working on a Magma creature and a hoovering robot next.

Stay tuned and have a Pulp Sunday everyone! :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
"Galactic Adventures in the Fourth DImension of the Forbidden Zone" © 2009 Killer B Games.

Black Beetles - Part 2

Hello Pulp friends :)

Yesterday I shared the beautiful Black Beetle sketch I unexpectedly received from Dan Brereton this past weekend. I was already very excited by this joyful surprise so you can imagine how I felt when I saw a seconf BB tribute being dropped on my table. My dear good friend Dar left me speachless when he delivered this in my hands. Thank you so much, Dar! :)

I will be talking about his beautiful "HUNTER" soon. (If you haven't picked up yet, do yourself a favor and pick up the hardcover: a magnificent book and a true labor of love for the subject matter)

To see the past tributes/homages to BB check this after Heroes Con post.
I am a lucky man :D

Tomorrow I will be back with more Pulp Sci-Fi.

Cheers,
Francesco

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

Black Beetles - Part 1

Hello Pulp friends :)

as I was mentioning earlier, I received some unexpected surprises at this past weekend Dragon*Con. No, I am not talking of the Power Woman who turned out to be a dude ;). I am referring to some tributes to my Black Beetle drawn by a couple of artists who I have a huge admiration for and that I am honored to call friends :)

Let's start first with the awesome Dan Brereton, of Nocturnals fame. He did a quick sketch of BB and I took a little time this morning to put some colors on it. Hope you guys dig the drawing as much I did :)

It's always cool to see my own creation drawn by artists whose work I admire, like it happened in the past with Steve Epting and Dave Flora, among others.

Stay tuned tomorrow for part.2.

Cheers,
Francesco

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

The Lone Ranger Comes To Town!

Hello, Pulp Friends,

decided to stick arounf the Old West with this Lone Ranger convention sketch I did this past weekend at Dragon*Con for that cool guy that is Shane.
I believe this might be the first time I drew this character so thanks again for giving me the opportunity to tackle it, Shane :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

Good, Bad, & Ugly Hex

Hello, Pulp Friends,

After the galactic advetures of yesterday, we time travel in the old west with a well known ugly mug: Jonah Hex.
I did this sketch while sitting at my table at Dragon*Con and I ended up trading it with another Hex sketch with Hex writer himslef, Mr Jimmy Palmiotti: thanks, Jimmy :)
Stay tuned for more old west in the next days ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

Galactic Adventures

Hello, Pulp Friends,

first let me apologize for missing this past Pulp Sunday but I was attending Dragon*Con and didn't have chance to work on an old time radio show.
To make up for it, expect a week full of Pulpiness (some from the Con itself).

Let's start today with this cover I did for a role game book for a UK based game company.
This is the first of 4 covers commissioned by them.
Hope you guys dig it :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
"Galactic Adventures in the Fourth DImension of the Forbidden Zone" © 2009 Killer B Games.

FOLLOW ME...

Yep, I too finally joined in that huge 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 ;)
This morning, in the news, they were saying now you can even get twitters from the surgery room, with pics and all that jazz. Crazey, don't you think? ;)

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 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