Sci-Fi/Noir Double Feature: CAPTAIN AMERICA and BLACK WIDOW

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Hello Pulp Friends,

I am so happy to finally announce my next project at MARVEL: CAPTAIN AMERICA and BLACK WIDOW, a 5 issue mini written by a dear friend of mine and a heck of talented writer, Mr Cullen Bunn :)

The mini will debut this September with a double shipping (#636 and #637) and will mix the classic Super Hero action with noir-thriller (as seen on the above cover) and weird-science, sci-fi themes (as you can see below). I am working on it right now and trust me: it's gonna be tons of FUN :)


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Above you can see my first 2 covers for the mini, and here's the solicits from Marvel:

CAPTAIN AMERICA & BLACK WIDOW #636 & 637
CULLEN BUNN (w) • FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA (a/c)
• Captain America and the Black Widow are on a deadly collision course!
• Crosshairs are trained on Cap!
• Kashmir Venemma dies! At least twice!
• Guest-starring Hawkeye, Iron Man, and Dr. Doom (?)
32 PGS. (EACH)/Rated T ...$2.99 (EACH)

Hope you guys enjoy the covers and will pick up the issues in September :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2012 Francesco Francavilla

CHILLS! THRILLS!! FEAR!!!

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Hello Pulp Friends,

Since I am up to my eyeballs working on 2 full books this month (and a few covers and illustrations as a side ;)), I hope it's cool with you all if I repost a couple of recent fake movie posters I did for Comic Twart, just in case there are a few Pulp friends here who don't follow that blog and might have missed these.

"WHO SHOT THE CHIEF" A Doom Patrol Murder Mystery

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The classic "whodunit" with a murder in an isolated mansion and only a small cast of possible murderers, a few suspects who each had a possible reason to kill the victim. That's right up Hitchcock's alley and would be cool to have the Doom Patrol crew as cast.

I think they are some of my best movie posters yet, but maybe I am biased with my own work, so I'll leave you the last word. :)
Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2011 Francesco Francavilla

GARRISON

So, the news is finally out, even if was half hidden in a small blurb (about the recent Phoenix Con) on the Newsarama blog.
I can finally reveal what I have been working on since beginning of the new year (and still working on it as I type this): it's GARRISON, a creator-owned 6 issue mini from Jeff Mariotte and me that will published by Wildstorm pretty soon (I hope ;)).
The pitch? In Jeff's words: "It's a near-future action epic about the most dangerous man in the world, Lester Garrison, who happens to look like someone you'd find at the tractor pull on Friday night."

Jeff is not kidding when talking about action: I think it's the most action packed book I have drawn to date (and my past books had lots of action in them anyway), plus other cool, noirish, and hi-tech elements related to a colossal manhunt.
This book is anything but boring, I can promise you that :)

I can't show any of the artowrk yet, not until we get the ok to show by DC Comics, but you can trust me when I say this is gonna be a really fun ride :)

Cheers,
Francesco

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