Kara Bocek pag.2

Hello Pulp friends :)

Here is page 2, sooner than expected since you all demanded it :)
Click on the image or click here for a bigger view.

Hope you guys dig it. If you do, feel free to spread the word and let everyone know about this little Black Beetle tale :)
And expect some more FUN on page 3 this coming Sunday :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
KARA BOCEK, BLACK BEETLE & COLT CITY created by, ™ and © 2009 Francesco Francavilla

POPEYE!

Inspired by today's Google homepage, a quick tribute to one of the heroes of my childhood and the reason why I love spinach so much ;)

Created by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1929 as a side character for the daily strip The Thimble Theatre, Popeye conquered the American readers first, and the world wide readers right after, becoming an icon of popular culture and one of the most recognizable characters in the world.
With him, Segar has written some of the most unforgettable pages of the comics history, rich of surrelaism, humanity, adventure, humor, poetry.

Little trivia: the spinach appear rarely in the daily strips, while they become an important element of the cartoon animated version.

Cheers,
Francesco

P.S. Eat veggies, kids!

Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.

Kara Bocek pag.1

Hello Pulp friends :)

How about getting this started? :D
Click on the image or click here for a bigger view.

If you dig it a lot and want more than just a page a week, I will steal a few more hours to my sleep and will try to make 2 pages a week, let's say Sundays and Wednesays? Lemme know :)
Meanwhile I hope you enjoy the intro :)

Have a Pulp Sunday, everyone.

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
KARA BOCEK, BLACK BEETLE & COLT CITY created by, ™ and © 2009 Francesco Francavilla

The Breslau Enters the Bosphorus

Hello Pulp friends :)

Couldn't help to post some more of the strip/page that will be up tomorrow. Working on dialogues/captions today. Hope you guys are as excited as I am :)
Click on the image for larger view.

Spread the word: BB is back! :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
KARA BOCEK, BLACK BEETLE & COLT CITY created by, ™ and © 2009 Francesco Francavilla

Destinazione: Costantinopoli!

Hello Pulp friends :)

Just a sneak peek at a panel from this Sunday first strip (working on it in between Zorro pages). Oh, did I mention there will be Nazis? ;)

Make sure to be there and bring friends!
Spread the word: BB is back! :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
KARA BOCEK, BLACK BEETLE & COLT CITY created by, ™ and © 2009 Francesco Francavilla

"Kara Bocek": more studies

Hello Pulp friends :)

I am sharing these with you all as they come along.
Please meet Aziz Haktan (on the left) and Ihsan Bey (on the right).
Aziz is the owner of an Antiques shop in Constantinople, and he has a special item Black Beetle is interested in.
Ihsan... well, he is one of the bad guys of this story, but you have to wait to see how bad he is ;)
This is gonna be FUN :D

Spread the word: BB is back! :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
BLACK BEETLE & COLT CITY created by, ™ and © 2009 Francesco Francavilla

"Kara Bocek" and the Pulp December

Hello Pulp friends :)

So let's get this December started, shall we? :D
Planning to bring the PULP/NOIR back to Pulp Sunday after the Horror October
and SciFi November. That means also more Black Beetle tales! :)

We left Black Beetle in his free-fall from an 18 story building in the prologue of "NO WAY OUT", remember? Well, as mentioned that story has developed to be a 6 issue mini and you will be able to see what happen next hopefully in 2010 (really pushing things around to make the mini hit the stores next year).


Meanwhile, since I can't keep BB away from Pulp SUnday, I decided to do a short web-tale of our beloved hero. "KARA BOCEK" will be set a few years before "NO WAY OUT" and will introduce some of the elements that will be part of the BB bigger arcs later. The change of settings is not just temporal but also geographical as we are now in Constantinople (today's Istanbul), Turkey and not in Colt City.
Expect Casablanca vibes in this ;)


Just worked on this "lobby card" (inspired by a pulp movie ;)) and the couple of concepts you see in this post (introducing Elsa Vogel) and now I need to layout the whole story in
the next few days so I can have Sunday strips going on Pulp Sunday for the
whole month.
Hope you guys dig the poster & the concept and will be on board for this ride. And please, let me hear from you because if it's just me and BB it's half fun :)

Cheers,
Francesco

All images © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
BLACK BEETLE & COLT CITY created by, ™ and © 2009 Francesco Francavilla