SotW: Baba Yaga

Hi guys,

today's witch is easily one of the most famous and most evil witches known in the world and one of the oldest legend too.

BABA YAGA


Baba Yaga, originally from Russian folklore, has been through a recent revival thanks to MIke MIgnola, who has used her in his Hellboy stories.
Maybe many of you are already familiar with her, but for those who aren't, Baba Yaga is known to be quite mean and to be a baby eater. She also lives in a house that has chicken feet and rides a mortar (even if she carries the classic broom as well).

Below, some detail of the illo.


More witches to follow. Make sure to be back tomorrow for a new witch and have some true pulp scares everyone :)

Cheers,
Francesco

"Sisterhood of the Witches" © 2008 Francesco Francavilla

SotW: The Bell Witch

Hi guys,

today's witch is a little less fictional than yesterday's. As matter of fact this one might be so "real" that she is believed to be the cause of John Bell's death.

THE BELL WITCH


John Bell moved in Tennessee with his family in 1803 looking for a better land. He found it and for several years things were going great and the family grew in number, until that day (or should I say night) in 1817 when John saw a weird animal, like a dog with a rabbit head, in his fields and tried to shoot it. Right after that, weird and creepy things started to happen: voices, noises, things moving, in and around the house, like an evil presence was haunting the place. And the legend of the Bell witch was born.
The witch was believed to be living in a cave on the Bells property and she seemed to have something personal with the capo familia. John started to get sick and sicker without no apparent reason and the day he died (Dec 19, 1820) they found a little bottle with dark liquid close to his bed. When they put a few drops on the mouth of the family cat, the cat instantly died.
I tried to put as many elements of this story in the image, trying to tell the legend with this illo. I hope I succeded a little bit.

Make sure to be back tomorrow for a new witch and have some true pulp scares everyone :)

Cheers,
Francesco

"Sisterhood of the Witches" © 2008 Francesco Francavilla

SotW: Asa Vajda

THE SISTERHOOD OF THE WITCHES.

Hi guys,

Halloween is just a few days away so I decided to start a countdown, here on Pulp Sunday, featuring every day a different Witch: what better than this to celebrate the night of Ognissanti? This way I will also make up for the lack of my posts in here in the last couple of weeks ;)
Anyhow, I hope you enjoy the new feature called: The Sisterhood of the Witches!


SO to start the countdown, and being today Sunday, and being this Pulp Sunday ;), the choice was an easy one: Black Sunday (or La Maschera del Demonio, in its original title). Directed by Mario Bava, features the evil witch Asa Vayda and a creepy variation of the Iron Maiden (the mask in the title). Pretty scary movie, shot in a wonderful gothic style :)
Make sure to be back tomorrow for a new witch and have some true pulp scares everyone :)

Cheers,
Francesco

"Sisterhood of the Witches" © 2008 Francesco Francavilla

Zorro - Chapter 8

Hi guys,

Sorry for the long pause, but due to a sudden opening in my wife's schedule, we went to Italy to visit my family for a couple of weeks and just got back (still feeling the jet-leg effects).
And it seems I got back just in time for the early release of the final chapter of my arc on the origins of The Fox. As some of you will know by now, I am not drawing the next 6 issue arc (art duties will be given to Cesar Razek), but I will be providing the front covers for the whole second arc and should be back drawing the interior pages as well with the third arc. Meanwhile I will be busy, in the next few months, working on a mini for Wildstorm (details to follow).

Getting back on topic, here's some preview pages from Zorro #8 on sale today. Hope you guys have enjoyed the arc and thank you all for the always kind words and support.

Cheers,
Francesco

"The Sting" (1973)

A beautiful movie with unforgettable music by Scott Joplin.

In loving memory of Paul Newman.

See you later, Paul.

Francesco

Zorro - Chapter 7

Hi guys,

The penultimate chapter of Zorro's origins came out today: things are escalating as the two timelines are aligning toward the explosive (and I am not talking figuratively here ;)) finale in the next issue (out in October).
Till then I hope you all enjoy what Matt and I have cooked for you and this 2 pages B/W preview :)

Cheers,
Francesco

MPC Week: " Sin City: The Stolen Car"

Hello Pulp Friends!

As promised here's some more Sin City "stuff".

First a short story, well a "all-in-one-panel" story to be precise, featuring our old friend Marv. I suggest to click on the image below to display a bigger size version of it, so you can read Marv's captions. And speaking of it, I tried to censor the colorful talk of Marv but something might have gone through, so be prepared for his peculiar language ;)


And to end this post, a hearty tribute to that Yellow Bastard ;)

Cheers,
Francesco





"Modern Pulp Comics" © 2008 Francesco Francavilla