FRANKENSTEIN's MONSTER

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Hello Pulp friends,

here's something that is really "pulp" as it's from 23 years ago: one of my first (of many) drawings of the Frankenstein Monster :)
Below you can see the original drawing, from 1989, all in charcoal (note I already had a passion to hand draw titles/text in the art at that time ;)), and above is an updated version from this morning: decided to give it a color treatment and when I was done I realized I had channeled - subconscious - a Basil Gogos vibe into it.

Any-who, hope you guys dig it and wish you all a wonderful Pulp Sunday :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2012 Francesco Francavilla


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31 Days of Halloween ~ 2: Frankenstein

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Hello Pulp Friends,

For day 2 of this Classic Horror marathon, I give you "FRANKENSTEIN"!

Frankenstein
USA, 1931
directed by James Whale
starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Dwight Frye

The Baron Von Frankenstein assembles body parts and neuro tissues from corpses to give life to a monster that gets out of his control. This is the masterpiece of the modern Universal gothic movie, along with Tod Browning’s Dracula. Karloff and his make-up have become legend in movie history.

In addition, the bonus chill images below I hope you will enjoy as well :)
Please spread the word about this event if you are enjoying it: the more the scarier :)

Cheers,
Francesco

~!~ BONUS CHILLS! ~!~


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Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

MPC Week: "Frankenstein Mobster"

Welcome to Monstro City, multi-etnic home of humans and.. monsters! Yep, werewolves, vampires, and other beautiful "people" deals with mobsters and corrupt police.
The young detective Terri has her hands full when she arrives to the city after the father has been killed. But is he really dead? I mean, this is the kinda place where zombies are "normal" and other weird things happen...


Mark Wheatley, creator of the series, wonderfully illustrate the pages with a nice pulpish/noir feel to the look and feel. I don't remember if I read it somewhere or if it was just a thought, but the Frankenstein Mobster character seems inspired by our very own Jim Steranko: similiar haircut and similiar outfit with turtleneck.

Above is my tribute to the character (which I did back in the days - gotta go to re-read those books again ;)) more inspired by the classic Frankenstein monster, which you can see below in another tribute of mine to the classic cult movie.

Cheers,
Francesco




"Modern Pulp Comics" © 2008 Francesco Francavilla