Tuesday, May 10, 2011

"Baltimore ~ The Curse Bells" #1 Variant Cover

Baltimore ~ The Curse Bells #1 Variant Cover
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Hello Pulp Friends,

After my variant covers for HELLBOY THE FURY #1 and BPRD MONSTERS #1, it's time to reveal my third variant cover I did for Mike Mignola's wonderful creations.
This time it's the turn of BALTIMORE, the character created by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden in novel format and then extended (luckily for us) to the comibook format.
As for the previous titles, I was asked to draw a variant cover for issue 1 (only the first issues will get these variants), and I couldn't be happier to play with yet another cool (and a favorite of mine) character. Throw in some demonic possessed monastery, evil nuns, and cursed bells and you get all the ingredients for a FUN story (and cover) :)
Hope you guys dig it.

One more Mignola-related cover to reveal, but for that we have to wait next month ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

Baltimore ~ The Curse Bells #1 (Francesco Francavilla Variant cover)
Monsters are overrunning Europe, and Baltimore, the only one who can put an end to these horrors, must find and kill Haigus, the vampire responsible for this chaos. Following reports that Haigus is holed up in a cloister, Baltimore finds a haven full of death and black magic, and the creature at the heart of his obsession!

• Based on the novel by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden.

• All-new Mignola series!

Writer: Mike Mignola, Michaela Golden
Artist: Ben Stenbeck
Colorist: Dave Stewart
Cover Artist: Mike Mignola, Francesco Francavilla (variant)

Artwork © 2011 Francesco Francavilla

4 comments:

Mark said...

Awesome cover. Hope these won't be all you're doing with Mignola. I'd love to see you work on a miniseries with him.

JC said...

Wonderful compilation. All the way down to the 350 cents. Very nice. Something else to look into...

Jake said...

My work here is done. Kidding! Way to go! It looks great!

Sean Off-key said...

Would love to see you work on a Lobster Johnson book someday.