Beardy Hornsworth, Occult Detective

Hello, Pulp Friends,

We take a little break from the Aliens to introduce Beardy Hornsworth, Occult Detective :D
I had to draw this after seeing the SuperTalentedWriter and VeryGoodFriend Jason Aaron posting this Halloween mugshot of him on his blog
I think Beardy Hornsworth should totally have its own title, don't you agree? Of course I would be delighted to illustrate it if Jason makes that happen ;)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

Scalped: High Lonesome Part 3

Hello Pulp friends,

I thought to share the process of Scalped page 1 for those of you who enjoy the making-of or who like this book :)
First I do a quick sketch for the page. Once approved I pencil the page on the official board and then ink it. I managed to take a (very poorly made) photo of the inking stage (below).
Hope you enjoy it since I am planning to show another couple of pages (if I get the OK to do so ;))

Cheers,
Francesco

Scalped Blues

Hello Pulp friends,

As you guessed, I am working on SCALPED and decided to do another promo image which contains a few elements of this issue, but without spoiling anything, I hope ;)
And that's exactly the reason why I am not adding anything more to this post and I leave you with the image :)

Click on the above sepia image for the color version.

Cheers,
Francesco

100 Pulps!

Hello Pulp friends,

I hope everyone had a great holiday season and wish you all a wonderful and successful 2009 :)
I wanted to celebrate my 100th post with a strip but work got in the way (even if I haven't abandoned the strip) so I thought what better than the Shadow to celebrate a blog that was inspired by those radio shows?
The above is a commission I recently did for our own friend Ilia: he asked for some action and I gave him a big chase in Little China :) Hope it was worth the wait, Ilia.
I wanted also to beef up this post with a great news: I was lucky enough to be invited to illustrate an issue of Scalped (#27), the critically acclaimed series created by Jason Aaron and R.M.Guera and published by DC Vertigo. I have been fan of this series since day one so you can imagine how excited I am to draw one of the stories written by Jason. For those of you who are not familiar with this title, it's one of the top noir, gritty book out there (the other being Criminal by Brubaker and Phillips). I greatly suggest to hunt down the trades if you guys haven't got on this book already.
I'll make sure to post some preview pages when I can, but right now I hope you enjoy the promo art below.

Cheers to you all and cheers to more Pulp in 2009!
Francesco

Click on the sepia image for the color version with pre-order info.