The Making of Detective Comics #874 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

As promised, here is the "making of DC #874 Cover" with a little commentary to go with I prepared for the official DC Universe blog (thanks to Alex Segura for always doing such a great job in updating all the DC fans about current and upcoming books :))

"This is the cover of the first full feature dedicated to Commissioner Gordon you will see during 2011 on Detective Comics. That’s right, the back-up features will disappear after #873 to become full feature every 3-4 issue of Jock’s Batman feature. In Scott’s master plan, the Commissioner Gordon story is strictly correlated to what happens in the Batman story, so we thought this was the best way to get the two storylines run to parallel while still adapting to the new 20 pages format.

As always I try to do, I wanted this cover to reflect a bit the story inside issue 874, so I asked Scott for a brief synopsis and for what he would like to see on the cover. Once acquired that info, I produced the 2 layouts you see here. Everyone at DC loved the first concept (which was my favorite too) but we wanted to make sure there was some of the elements of the second concept too (the search in the woods). So I added some foliage to the insert image with the doll and voila’, you got the cover you saw yesterday.

Little trivia: the eye missing from the doll and ending up as something the kid is toying with was something I came up while working on the final inks (concept and pencils had the doll with both eyes - as you can see from the image below - and the kid just playing with a stick)

Hope you guys enjoy it and don’t forget to pick up Detective #871 at the end of November"


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Hope you all had a wonderful Pulp Sunday and pls don't forget to pickup Detective #871 on the 24th of this month :)

CHeers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

Detective Comics #874 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

Cover Week continues with DETECTIVE COMICS #874 cover.
Tune in tomorrow for a "making of DC #874 Cover" look and some extra content about my work on Detective :)
Meanwhile here's the solicits for 874 (as they will appear in December Previews for Feb release) and don't miss the first issue of the new Detective arc (#871) by Scott Snyder, Jock & David Baron on the feature, and me on the Commissioner Gordon co-feature, on sale on Nov 24th, only 2 weeks from now :)

DETECTIVE COMICS #874
Written by SCOTT SNYDER
Art and cover by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA

“There are some cases that come screaming back at you…like phone calls in the night…”
For years, Jim Gordon has been haunted by the unsolved case of Gotham’s notorious
“Peter Pan Killer.” Now, armed with new evidence, Gordon is determined to put the case to rest.
But as he digs deeper, he’ll unearth a shocking discovery about his own past – a revelation that will shake him to the core. Skeletons will be exposed and secrets revealed in this special issue featuring art by Francesco Francavilla!

On sale FEBRUARY 23 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

LOVECRAFT: Black & White

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Hello Pulp Friends,

Cover Week continues with LOVECRAFT Black & White cover.
As you all know, I am a huge fan of HPL so I was very happy to be asked to provide a wraparound cover for this book that showcases tons of B/W illustrations by famous comic artists and illustrators.

The book is edited by Umberto Sisia, an Italian expert of all Lovecraft things, and published by Dagon Press. I have been told that the book printing is limited to a very few hundreds copies.

For more info, check here.
Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

KATO: Origins #9 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

Cover Week continues with KATO ORIGINS #9 cover.
And while we are at it, please go tot he store and pick-up KATO Origins #5, which came out today :) As I said, it's a really good read :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

Green Hornet Year One #10 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

Cover week continues with my cover for issue 10 of Green Hornet Year One
Hope you guys dig it :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

KATO: Origins #8 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

Cover Week continues with the cover I did for KATO ORIGINS #8 - Hellfire Club!
Hope you guys dig it and hope you are reading the book becuase it's a really good read :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

Sherlock Holmes Year One #1 Cover

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Hello Pulp Friends,

2011 will have some new sweet covers from yours truly :)

One of the title I was lucky to be asked to provide main covers for is Dynamite's SHERLOCK HOLMES YEAR ONE. I have read the first 2 scripts and - trust me - it's a book you wanna put on your pull list.
For this title I decided to try a different approach, more like a tribute to the classic Holmes dime novel covers.
Here's the first one: please let me know if you dig the direction here :)

About the other covers I am doing... well, we will talk about them when I am allowed ;)
Meanwhile come back all week since this is gonna be COVER WEEK! :)

Have a wonderful Pulp Sunday everyone :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla