Francesco Mattina Archives

Francesco Mattina has never worked for DC Comics, and we have always been at war with Eurasia His covers sent to the cornfield topped traffic again on Bleeding Cool yesterday Where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run[...]

DC Comics trashing Francesco Mattina covers topped traffic on Bleeding Cool yesterday Where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and possibly the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an[...]

Bleeding Cool reported on significant criticism directed at comic book cover artist Francesco Mattina as the likes of super hunk of the decade artist Adi Granov and Scott Williams, inking partner of the Publisher and CCO of DC Comics, accused him of using AI in recently released cover artwork for DC Comics Well, it seems to have[...]

Francesco Mattina stories from 2024 and 2019 topped traffic on Bleeding Cool yesterday Where you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and possibly the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as[...]

Today, Bleeding Cool has received an inordinate amount of traffic for an old article from 2019 about Francesco Mattina being accused of swiping many of his covers from existing artwork from other artists It wasn't an uncommon claim at the time and he was cancelled a bit for it Marvel Comics also dropped using him,[...]

This is the planned variant Francesco Mattina cover to the issue Mattina has, in recent years, gained the reputation of showing his influences rather heavily on his sleeve Some have seen something very familiar about this comic book cover as well. Separated At Birth: Francesco Mattina and Johnny Desjardins on Spawn Cover to Spawn #307. It was[...]

It is responsible for Fan Expo Canada, Fan Expo Dallas, Calgary Expo, Fan Expo Regina, Megacon Orlando, Fan Expo Boston, Edmonton Expo, Megacon Tampa Bay, Dallas Fan Days, Toronto Comicon, and Fan Expo Vancouver. Bleeding Cool got the tip yesterday that, in response to comic book creators' increasing sense of frustration and annoyance and allegations regarding the[...]

It's not like this is the first time that Italian comic book and cover artist Francesco Mattina has been called out for… unexplained similarities in his work to other people Bleeding Cool was doing it back in 2017, comparing the work of Ian MacDonald to Mattina's Venomized covers. Similar concern was raised regarding alleged similarities between his[...]

Image Comics sent out a press release today unveiling three "jaw-dropping" covers for Todd McFarlane's Spawn #284 by artist Francesco Mattina And by three "jaw-dropping" covers, we mean one cover, plus a black and white version of that same cover, plus another version of the same cover without the trade dress, known as a "virgin"[...]

I've secreted the new ones in to the gallery now for you to enjoy … and I'm still leaving the lovely surprise at the bottom. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ The creators on each cover are Invincible Iron Man #5 by[...]