Franco Cespedes Archives

de la Torre and drawn by Franco Cespedes and was de la Torre's first venture into the comics medium away from his long bibliography in prosecraft, and has not only been a success, but looks to be an ongoing series with future arcs De la Torre also teases that there's been some adaptation interest into[...]

Star Mage debuted to a warm reception and has gone from strength to strength in the hands of artist Franco Cespedes, following the life of young Darien Connors as he finds himself leaving a rather harsh teen world behind to assume greater responsibilities and greater dangers in an intricately crafted universe among the stars that[...]

But what grounds Star Mage are the real-life situations Darien encounters on Earth and beyond, often gritty enough to take the sheen right off the slightly saccharine trends that can pop up in YA fiction. Artwork by Ray Dillon on issue #1 (picked up by Franco Cespedes thereafter) creates a fluid universe where the ordinary breaks[...]