It’s been three months since the latest post. I’m very busy with the drawings of two books, I’ll post some image soon. Meanwhile I’m taking a small holiday to go to the comic books festival of Angoulême, in France.
This is the comic I did in the 24 Hours Comic Day (22 hours of work).
The work was (almost) all digital. A piece of “real” paper for the mini-storyboard. Dialogs written on an OpenOffice Spreadsheet, drawings (pencils, cases, balloons, lettering and inking…) with Manga Studio EX, and colors with Photoshop. All on a PC Enface Filo M25 with Windows XP Pro hooked to a Cintiq 12WX tablet.
Timing: 1 hour for texts and storyboard, 6 hours for pencils (1 hour dinner break), 7 hours for inks (sums up to about 14 hours to complete black and white pages) and then 1 hour of rest and 7 hours for colors. Total: 22 hours. And then about 1 hour to print everything (on postcards).
Thanks to Associazione Vastagamma for the organization and to my colleagues the climbed the mountain with me.
Texts are in italian.
This afternoon (in Italy) I will start the 24 Hour Comics Day. I’ll work on a story of 24 pages realized in 24 continued hours. Me and other authors will gather in Pordenone, thanks to the organization of “Associazione Vastagamma”:
www.vastagamma.org
The same (crazy!) thing will be done by thousands of artists in the whole world. You’ll find here more information on the “global” 24 Hour Comics Day:
www.24hourcomicsday.com
Andrea Mutti did the art on this episode of Marvel Zombies, where I did colors. The main character of this issue (settled in the 70s) is Tony Stark / Iron Man, that will struggle against a bunch of zombies. Bloodbath!
[I've removed these images after suggestions of other authors involved in this project. They think that the publisher may not authorize previews like these.]
The book “La Croisade des Enfants”, written by Fabrice David and drawn by me, has won a prize! It won the 1st prix in the “Jeunesse” section at the festival of Sainte Enimie, in France! All my thanks to the organization of the festival for their kindness, Sainte Enimie is really great: a medieval village in the mountains of the National Park of Cévennes.
Moreover, the gran prix of the festival has gone to the beautiful book “Les Voies du Seigneur”, written again by Fabrice David, together with Grégory Lassablière, and drawn by Jaime Calderòn (website), great spanish artist and travel mate!
This is the medal that I received for “La Croisade des Enfants”:
Prix Jeunesse Sainte Enimie 2009 à "La Croisade des Enfants" (David/Malisan)
On Juillet 11 et 12 I will partecipate at the comic festival of Sainte Enimie, in France. I will do “dédicaces” on the book “La Croisade des Enfants”, just issued by Soleil Productions.
Visit the festival website to get more information.
The video trailer of “La Croisade des Enfants”, published by Soleil!
I’m working on the character design for a new project (not confirmed yet). I did a first version with a realistic style, and then a more “cartoonish” one. These are two versions of the same character.
Yesterday, may 27, was issued my first french book as a comic book artist! The publisher is Soleil, for which I already worked on “Le Syndrome de Caïn” et “Eden Killer”.
The story is written by Fabrice David (known for “Servitude”, Soleil), and tells the story of the children’s crusade, that took place in France in the XIII century (and lies between history and legend).
The book is the “classic” french format: 46 big-sized pages in full color.
You can buy it online (even outside France) from Amazon.fr:
http://www.amazon.fr/croisade-enfants-Malisan-David/dp/2302006038/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243519244&sr=1-1
You can also read the first pages online, on the BD Gest’ website. Here’s the link:
http://www.bdgest.com/preview-531-BD-la-croisade-des-enfants-recit-complet.html
The website Sceneario.com published a positive review of “La Croisade des Enfants”, my first book in France as a comic artist. The reviewer signaled the book as “recommended”, and I’m really happy of it! You can read here the full review (in french).