"Un Requiem Per Santiago!"

Hello Pulp & SpaghettiWestern Friends,

this started intially like a quick caricature of Danny Trejo done in a break between sequential pages, but I got back to it now and then and carried away a little ;)
Hope you dig the poster becuase I don't think we all have a chance to dig the actual movie ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

All artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Hello Pulp Friends,

I wanted to share the original inks of this cover I did for the first issue of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Below you can see the final cover, completed with colors (by me) and title/logo.
As I understand it, this is a new mini still featuring the MWNN character, but a different story arc. The writer is the talented and veteran Chuck Dixon and the interiors are by Esteve Polls: I had a peek at them and they are gorgeous :)
Published by Dynamite Ent. of course.

Anyhow, hope you dig my spaghetti cover :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Pulp Spotlight: The Man With No Name

Hello pulp-friends,

Since I have to skip next week for con reasons, I thought to have a beefy episode today with lot of art and dedicated to a pulp genre I haven't covered yet (as far I remember ;)): the Western!
What better than the Man with no Name, the hero of Sergio Leone's beautiful trilogy, to get the Western rolling? :)


"A fistful of dollars" is the first movie of the so called "trilogy of the dollar" (the other two movies are "For a Few Dollars More", 1965, and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", 1966), directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood.

Masterpiece of the "spaghetti western" genre, A fistful of Dollars is mistakenly considered the first of that genre. Actually there were already western movies made in Europe before 1964, but they weren't as popular or successful. Leone's take reinvented the genre, bringing it back to popularity and re-defining the rules of a good western.

The movie was inspired by the japanese "Yojimbo" (1961) by Akira Kurosawa. SInce it was the first spaghetti western to reach the American market, many members of the cast and crew got a stage name, including the director Leone and the composer Ennio Morricone. In the United States, the United Artists publicity campaign referred to Eastwood's character in all three films as the "Man With No Name".

Cheers,
Francesco


Pulp Spotlight is the monthly feature where I cover other famous characters that have helped to build the Pulp genre not just on the radio but also in the other media.