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Francesco Francavilla

birth name	Francesco Francavilla
nationality	Italian
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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 https://francesco-francavilla.blogspot.com/ pulpsunday.blogspot.com http://theblackbeetle.blogspot.com

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.

Career

Francesco Francavilla made his professional comics debut in the Italian comics anthology Amazing Comics.[1]

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.[2] His cover work is particularly noteworthy, he won an Eisner for it in 2012.[3]

Bibliography

Interior comic work includes:

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)
Necrologue #1-5 (announced for 2013; unreleased)[12][13]
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)

Covers only

• Zorro vol. 6 #9-11, 13-14 (Dynamite, 2008–2009)

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly #1 (Dynamite, 2009)

• The Perhapanauts Halloween Spooktacular #1 (Image, 2009)

• Hack/Slash: The Series #32 (Devil's Due, 2010)

• The Lone Ranger #21-22 (colors on John Cassaday) (Dynamite, 2010)

• Green Hornet: Year One #2-12 (Dynamite, 2010–2011)

• Kato Origins #1-11 (Dynamite, 2010–2011)

• The Broadcast tpb (NBM Publishing, 2010)

• Sherlock Holmes (Dynamite):

• * Year One #1-6 (2011)

• * The Liverpool Demon #1-5 (2012–2013)

• * Moriarty Lives #1-5 (2013–2014)

• Hellboy: The Fury #1 (Dark Horse, 2011)

• B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Monsters #1 (Dark Horse, 2011)

• Baltimore: The Curse Bells #1 (Dark Horse, 2011)

• Abe Sapien: The Devil Does Not Jest #1 (Dark Horse, 2011)

Francesco Francavilla

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