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Francesco Francavilla
Francesco Francavilla
	Francavilla at Special Edition NYC
Born	Francesco Francavilla
Nationality	Italian
Area(s)	Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker, Letterer, Colourist
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
	http://www.francescofrancavilla.com; http://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]

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)