I’ve always wanted to do a series of small short posts spotlighting some of my favourite creators in the comics industry a short summary, images of their work and links to their sites and where you can see their work for yourselves. To begin this new series of posts I begin with one of my favourite artists from the past few years, Francesco Francavilla.
Franceso Francavilla is an Eisner winning Cover Artist who has fast become a familiar and easily recognisable sight on our comic book shelves with his unique art style and fantastic cover work. I first came across Francavilla when reading Black Mirror by Scott Snyder, himself and Jock. He brought his unique ‘noir’ style to the character and a tone that complimented the story.
I immediately had to do a little more research and found his Blogger, which is well worth checking out although like many he has now moved to Tumblr, where he makes regular posts with more artwork and one of the highlights for me was his illustrations made while watching episodes of Doctor Who, these would summarise the episode in one image and would have been great posters for the episodes, quite obvious why IDW decided to get Francavilla to create variant covers for there Doctor Who 50th anniversary series Doctor Who Prisoner of Time.
Scott Snyder isn’t the only high profile writer Francavilla has worked with, he has been on many of my favourite comics from Guardians of the Galaxy where he worked with Brian Michael Bendis for the titles Infinity tie in and the much loved Hawkeye with Matt Fraction. He is currently the regular interior and cover artist for Afterlife with Archie, alongside his other variant cover work for various publishers.
He isn't just an artist though he has also taken a turn at writing with his critically acclaimed creator owned series Black Beetle published by Dark Horse which is up for an Eisner this year for Best Limited Series so good luck to him. Francavilla continues to receive high praise and this is only evident in him receiving yet another Eisner nomination, I am sure there will be plenty more to come from him.
I would certainly recommend checking out his work on Black Mirror, which alongside Francavilla's great artwork it is also a brilliant Batman story. Black Beetle is a fun read, I am still to get Necrologue but thoroughly enjoyed No Way Out. Click the links above to check out his Blogger and Tumblr.
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