BILBOLBUL2009 | HOBBY COMICS 1/2 OUT NOW!

Here! A quick excerpt from HC1/2!
Look for it in your bookstore or at upcoming Napoli Comicon 2009!
Published by our super unblockable desperation critical nuclear savior cancel Silvana of GRRRZETIC.

(these are color version of the actual B/W panels, custom made for the BILBOLBUL exhibition in piazza del Nettuno, Bologna)



Intimidative cover by intimidation master, Tuono Mr. Pettinato.

SD001 | PLISSKEN

Cover illustration for "Plissken", a LORY D remix EP for John Carpenter's "Escape from New York" OST.
Yes: I actually wrote John Carpenter's name on a record label (and Alan Howarth's too)
I can die in peace now.
Published thanks to my friend Radro at Subdance.

And here's the promotional sticker design.

A mysterious project is approaching faster.

Breaking details soon to follow.

BLUE ISSUE 194 | Cover illustration

Blue 194, out now. Ask your newsagent.
This is my humble contribute to a forbidden sacred magazine.
I wanted to catch that exotic super futuristic flavour of those early super pricy '90's newtype japanese magazines.
Hope you'll like it.

***UPDATE***
Here's my copy!

BILBOLBUL 2009 | Nicotine

An excerpt from my personal panels of SUPERAMICI exhibition in Piazza del Nettuno, Bologna for BILBOLBUL 2009.

BILBOLBUL 2009 | Diverso da me. All’improvviso non sono più io...

From Bilbolbul website:
“Diverso da me. All’improvviso non sono più io...” (Different from me. Suddenly I am not myself any more...) is the theme of the second comic contest referred to all the elementary and the intermediate schools in Bologna and its province. What would happen if once we waked up with the head of an animal instead of ours? Starting from this idea, the young participants invented the stories that are going to be showed in the exhibition. The best stories will be awarded during the Bilbolbul festival. The exhibition is being prepared in Sala Borsa Ragazzi and it's also showing the works of some famous cartoonists who are testing themselves on the same theme. Moreover, the exhibition is moving all over the libraries in Bologna and its province, creating new meeting oppurtunities for children and for all the citizens. The initiative is promoted by Provincia di Bologna, Emil Banca, Biblioteca Sala Borsa Ragazzi, in collaboration with Quartiere San Vitale and Quartiere Savena; and it is shared by Biblioteca Casa di Khaoula, Biblioteca Natalia Ginzburg, Biblioteca Scandellara, Biblioteca Comunale di Crespellano, Biblioteca Comunale di Monte San Pietro, Biblioteca Comunale di San Giorgio di Piano, Biblioteca Comunale di Zola Predosa.

Ghost Machine: NEW COLOR AVAILABLE.

VIOLET!
Buy it from 7piedi CLICKING HERE!

Some drafts for a commercial project.

A savior sun and a black sea. Drafts for an animation project.

Dai Superamici mi guardi Superdio che dai Supernemici mi guardo io.

Superamici are a special guest of BILBOLBUL 2009, that will take place in Bologna, March 4-8. We will have the big square, "Piazza del Nettuno", to make our exhibition. This image is the official illustration for a convention/lecture we were invited to do by Hamelin. We will talk about or work and our special project for the exhibition! I will post the date of the event here! Don't miss it!

U2 for Rolling Stone magazine. Wrong.

I'm veeeery happy.
I was contacted by Mr. Marco Cendron, art director for Rolling Stone Magazine, to do some illustration work. My job was to introduce NO LINE ON THE HORIZON by U2. I tried to develop their abstract cover (by the japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto) into a narrative illustration that helped me to skip the "draw Bono Vox minigame" step while adding a more dramatic, hyeratic feeling to the piece.
It's like the next image in a sequence with the album cover. Where do these huge things come from? Where are they going? Why did they stop over the city?
I wanted to draw an advent, not a tribute: this was to keep the sensation of a new thing coming, I didn't want to celebrate the old good U2.

Now the funny part. The illustration you see above is NOT the one that will be published on RSM because I was so excited to work with them that I didn't ask for the image W/H ratio they needed.
Guess what? I had to redraw the whole image in an horizontal format and throw away this one :)
Well I was so happy to do some drawings that it was a double pleasure: I did the second image (wich has a wider angle and holds much more details in it) in a night session of work, from scratch to finished color version.
The "right"version of the illustration will be published on RSM March 2009 issue, I will show the final artwork here sooner or later.

Astrogamma, panel 01

Some preproduction stuff...

Astrogamma first draft!

BLUE SNIFF COMICS

A preview for a short comic published by Coniglio Editore on BLUE "SNIFF COMICS" special issue.
As the name suggests, this special erotic magazine's thread is "smell".
Ratigher of SUPERAMICI published a story on the same issue too!
Don't miss it!

XCOMICS COVER

Cover Illustration for the special SUPERAMICI XCOMICS issue, "donne nude con le mani in tasca", published by Coniglio Editore.

XCOMICS MEGA PORNO

Superamici VS porn.
This is my personal take on sexy comics, published on XCOMICS, SUPERAMICI Special Issue "donne nude con le mani in tasca" by Coniglio Editore. The story is about a couple that grow bigger and bigger while having sex. That's it. They get so big that, after destroying a whole city, they become too heavy even for the earth's gravitational field. They detach from he planet and get lost in space becoming a symbol of universal beauty and will expand more than the universe itself as long as they continue to love each other.

MAICOL&MIRCO + RATIGHER + DR. PIRA + TUONO PETTINATO + LRNZ