Francesco Francavilla
Francesco Francavilla is an Italian comic book artist known for his creator-owned series The Black Beetle and pulp-inspired comic covers. Other notable works include The Black Coat (which he co-created), Dynamite's Zorro series, and his recent run on Detective Comics with Scott Snyder and Jock.
Francesco Francavilla
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- Birth Name
- Francesco Francavilla
- Nationality
- Italian
- Awards
- "Favourite Newcomer Artist" Eagle Award 2012 "Best Cover Artist" Eisner Award 2012
- Born
- 1950
- Occupation
- illustrator · artist
- Fields
- visual arts · book illustration · comic
- Honours
- Eisner Award for Best Cover Artist
- Languages
- Italian · English
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Francesco Francavilla is an Italian comic book artist known for his creator-owned series The Black Beetle and pulp-inspired comic covers. Other notable works include The Black Coat (which he co-created), Dynamite's Zorro series, and his recent run on Detective Comics with Scott Snyder and Jock.
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• Birth Name — Francesco Francavilla • Nationality — Italian • Write — y • Art — y • Pencil — y • Ink — y • Letter — y • Color — y • Notable Works — Zorro Detective Comics Black Panther The Black Beetle Afterlife with Archie • Awards — "Favourite Newcomer Artist" Eagle Award 2012 "Best Cover Artist" Eisner Award 2012 • Website — http: www.francescofrancavilla.com pulpsunday.blogspot.com
Career
Career
Francesco Francavilla made his professional comics debut in the Italian comics anthology Amazing Comics. Within the industry he has become known for his pulp and retro-inspired style. He runs a blog, Pulp Sunday, dedicated to this kind of work. His cover work is particularly noteworthy, he won an Eisner for it in 2012. He has worked as an interior artist for both Marvel Comics (Black Panther: The Man without Fear, Captain America and Bucky, Hawkeye) and DC Comics (Detective Comics for The Black Mirror story arc, which won the 2012 Eisner for best ongoing series). Most recently he has been focusing on The Black Beetle, a series he originally created for his Pulp Sunday blog, which is now being published by Dark Horse Comics. This series has already had wide critical acclaim and has been made an ongoing series as a part of Dark Horse Comics' superhero push. Nowadays, he is the featured visual artist in today's issue of The New York Times Magazine, his artwork is now moving into the non-fiction realm. He also has continued to work with both Dark Horse and Detective Comics over the past few years, with some of his recent works including The Joker: The Man the Stopped Laughing and Night of the Ghoul. At the end of 2024 it was announced that Francavillia would be working once again with Scott Snyder on Snyder’s latest comic series White Boat, which is set to be released in 2025.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1950
Francesco Francavilla born.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5479366: Francesco Francavilla
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- “Francesco Francavilla”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• 2012: Won "Favourite Newcomer Artist" Eagle Award • 2012: Won "Best Cover Artist" Eisner Award • 2015: Nominated "Best Cover Artist" Eisner Award • 2016: Nominated "All-in-One Award" Inkwell Awards
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- 1.Hooper, Terry. Wearing the Black Coat: Francesco Francavilla. Comics Bulletin. 2006.
- 2.Francavilla, Francesco. Pulp Sunday.
- 3.Eisner Award Recipients 2010-present.
- 4.Eisner Award Recipients 2010-present.
- 5.Francavilla, Francesco. "The Black Beetle: No Way Out #1" is a Smash Hit!.
- 6.Khouri, Andy. Dark Horse Superheroes: New Ongoings, Pulp Revivals and DC Refugees. Comics Alliance.
- 7.Bunce, C.J. Francesco Francavilla–Looking for the work of your favorite comic artist in new places. borg. 2018-05-06.
- 8.Francesco Francavilla. DC.
- 9.THE JOKER: THE MAN WHO STOPPED LAUGHING #4. DC.
- 10.Night of the Ghoul TPB :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics. www.darkhorse.com.
- 11.White Boat #1 (Cover A - Francavilla). DSTLRY.
- 12.Glendening, Daniel. SDCC EXCLUSIVE: Bodies Fall in Francavilla's "Black Beetle: Necrologue". Comic Book Resources. July 17, 2013.
- 13.Atomic Avenue. Black Beetle: Necrologue.
- 14.Also used as cover for chapters 75 and 76.
- 15.Also used as cover for chapters 27-30 as well as print edition of Sensation Comics #10.
- 16.Morris, Steve. The Final Eagle Awards have Landed. Comics Beat. May 25, 2012.
- 17.Spurgeon, Tom. Your 2012 Eagle Awards Winners. The Comics Reporter. May 25, 2012.
- 18.Francavilla, Francesco. EISNER, The Black Beetle, & Creature From The Black Lagoon!.
- 19.2015 Eisner Award Nominations Announced, Comic Alliance.
- 20.Inkwell Awards 2016 Winners
Bibliography printed in the source article · 48
- The Black Coat (with Adam Cogan and Ben Lichius, Ape Entertainment):
- A Call to Arms #1-4 (2006)
- Or Give Me Death #1 (of 4) (2007)
- Sea of Red #11-13 (layouts for Paul Harmon, written by Rick Remender, Image, 2006)
- 24Seven Volume 2: "Confession" (script and art, anthology graphic novel, Image, 2007)
- Fear Agent #11: "Along Come a Spider" (with Rick Remender, Image, 2007)
- Left on Mission #1-5 (with Chip Mosher, Boom! Studios, 2007)
- Sorrow #1-4 (with Rick Remender and Seth Peck, Image, 2007–2008)
- Zorro vol. 6 #1-8, 15-20 (with Matt Wagner, Dynamite, 2008–2010)
- Tales of the Starlight Drive-in: "1966" and "1972" (with Michael San Giacomo, anthology graphic novel, Image, 2008)
- The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta: Dracula Meets the Wolfman (with Steve Niles, one-shot, Image, 2009)
- Scalped #27: "High Lonesome, Part Three: The Ballad of Baylis Earl Nitz" (with Jason Aaron, Vertigo, 2009)
- Green Hornet: Year One #1-6 (colors on Aaron Campbell, written by Matt Wagner, Dynamite, 2010)
- Garrison #1-6 (with Jeff Mariotte, Wildstorm, 2010)
- Detective Comics (DC Comics):
- "Skeleton Cases" (with Scott Snyder, in vol. 1 #871-872, 874-875 and 879, 2011)
- "The Face in the Glass" (with Scott Snyder and Jock, in vol. 1 #881, 2011)
- "Rain" (script and art, in vol. 2 #27, 2011)
- Black Panther (with David Liss, Marvel):
- The Man without Fear #513-515, 517-518 and 521-523 (2011)
- The Most Dangerous Man Alive #524 (2011)
- Captain America (Marvel):
- "Old Wounds" (with Ed Brubaker and James Asmus, in #625-628, 2011–2012)
- "Captain America and Black Widow" (with Cullen Bunn, in #636-640, 2012–2013)
- Outlaw Territory Volume 2: "Lullaby" (script and art, anthology graphic novel, Image, 2011)
- The Black Beetle (script and art, Dark Horse):
- Dark Horse Presents (anthology):
- "The Night Shift" (in vol. 2 #11-13, 2012)
- "Kara Böcek" (in vol. 3 #28-32, 2016–2017)
- No Way Out #1-4 (2013)
- Glendening, Daniel. Black Beetle: Necrologue. Atomic Avenue. July 17, 2013.
- Swamp Thing vol. 5 #10: "Arcane's Lullaby" (with Scott Snyder, DC Comics, 2012)
- Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #5: "Dark Agnes" (with Paul Tobin, anthology, Dark Horse, 2012)
- Hawkeye vol. 4 #10, 12 (with Matt Fraction, Marvel, 2013)
- Batwoman #21: "Interlude III" (with Haden Blackman and J. H. Williams III, DC Comics, 2013)
- Afterlife with Archie #1-10 (with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Archie Comics, 2013–2016)
- American Vampire Anthology #1: "The Producers" (script and art, Vertigo, 2013)
- Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 #8-9: "Infinity" (with Brian Michael Bendis, Marvel, 2013–2014)
- Vertigo Quarterly: CMYK #4 "The Dying of the Light" (script and art, anthology, Vertigo, 2015)
- The Shadow #100: "The Laughing Corpse" (script and art, co-feature, Dynamite, 2015)
- Moon Knight vol. 6 #5-9 (with Jeff Lemire, Greg Smallwood, Wilfredo Torres and James Stokoe, Marvel, 2016–2017)
- All-Star Batman #6-9: "The Cursed Wheel, Act Two" (with Scott Snyder, co-feature, DC Comics, 2017)
- Will Eisner's The Spirit: The Corpse Makers #1-5 (script and art, Dynamite, 2017–2018)
- DC Holiday Special 2017: "Going Down Easy" (with Tom King, anthology, DC Comics, 2018)
- Hungry Ghosts #4: "The Cow Head" (with Anthony Bourdain, anthology, Berger Books, 2018)
- Shock (script and art, anthology graphic novel, Aftershock):
- "Invasion" (in Volume 1, 2018)
- "The Last Confession" (in Volume 2, 2019)
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