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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.

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]

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).^[4] 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^[5] and has been made an ongoing series as a part of Dark Horse Comics' superhero push.^[6]

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.^[7]

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)^[8][9]
• 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

Awards

• 2012: Won "Favourite Newcomer Artist" Eagle Award^[12][13]
• 2012: Won "Best Cover Artist" Eisner Award^[14]
• 2016: Nominated "All-in-One Award" Inkwell Awards^[15]

Notes

References

• Francesco Francavilla at the Grand Comics Database

External links

• Official website
• Francesco Francavilla at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Pulp Sunday
• The Art of Francesco Francavilla
• Comic-Twart: Francesco Francavilla
• An Audio Interview with Francesco Francavilla, Word Balloon, May 25, 2011