Camilla d'Errico is a comic book illustrator, painter and visual artist.
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Career
editComics
editCamilla d’Errico has been drawing comic books since 2001, while attaining her Illustration and Design diploma at Capilano College in North Vancouver. Her first professional comic book project was with Seattle and New York based Committed Comics, for the series Threads. She then took on the role of lead penciler for the four-part mini series Zevon-7. When Zevon-7 creator Quenton Shaw launched QEW Publishing in 2004, Camilla’s creator-owned manga series, Burn, was added to the studio’s project base and was subsequently published by Arcana Studios in May 2008.[1]
In 2006 she was asked to work on the graphic novel for singer Avril Lavigne.[2] Together with Joshua Dysart, d’Errico co-created the two-part graphic novel, entitled Make 5 Wishes, which was published in 2007 by Del Rey Manga and Random House in North America and by Tokyopop in Asia. In 2007, d’Errico became the artist for Serena Valentino’s series, Nightmares & Fairy Tales, published by Slave Labor Graphics, from issue 19 to issue 23.[3]
Image Comics published a five issue miniseries and graphic novel drawn by d'Errico. The mini series is a spin-off story of the video game Sky Pirates of Neo Terra, which is based on d'Errico's artwork. She is also slated to work with writer, Grant Morrison on their creator-owned project The New Bible (previously named Warcop[4]).[5]
Painting
editCamilla d'Errico's career as a painter began in 2006, when she participated in shows at Vancouver's Ayden Gallery in Gastown. Since early 2007, d'Errico began showing her work in galleries across the US and Canada, in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Vancouver in what is known as the Lowbrow (art movement). She is among the group of female artists including Audrey Kawasaki, and Amy Sol who paint beautiful young girls in the Pop Surrealism category.[6]
Commercial work
editIn parallel to comics and manga, d'Errico has done illustration and design work for The Walt Disney Company, Ride Snowboards, Hasbro Toys, Wizkids, Microsoft Zune for the Zune Hut at Whistler's Telus World Ski & Snowboard Championship, OSO Design House and Ginch Gonch.[7]
Dark Horse Comics has licensed her art for a Journal and Stationery Set, and Punchbrand has used her as their flagship artist for their artists' series Crazyhats and Panda Hoodies. Her work is licensed onto various merchandise, including a line of handbags and accessories, stationery, clothing, computer and phone 'skins', cushions, jigsaw puzzles, postcard sets and sketchbooks. She has a collection of tshirts at Hot Topic in addition to producing her own clothing.[8]
In June 2009, Neverwear.net released a collaborative print by d'Errico and Neil Gaiman based on Gaiman's short story, How to Talk to Girls at Parties. In August 2009, Dark Horse released its popular collected trade, Myspace Dark Horse Presents Volume 3, containing the short webcomic Vampy Cat Play Friend as well as new cover art by d'Errico.[9]
Designer toys
editD'Errico has worked in vinyl toys, having customized blanks for Ad Funture, Osaka Popstar, the DCTO Jibun Project, Mindstyle & Disney's Stitch Experiment and Hasbro's Mighty Mugg for Lucasfilm's "The Empire Muggs Back" series. She was one of the artists chosen to customize and create a toy for the first Canadian vinyl toy series called Bax Bear.[10]
D'Errico has also released her own designer toy, a plush based on the devil character, "Kuro" from her series, Tanpopo.[11] In 2011 a line of vinyl and resin collectibles was released at San Diego Comic-Con.[12][13]
Techniques and materials
editD'Errico uses Holbein Aqua Duo paints, which are water-soluble oil paints. She uses these on wooden panels for her colour pieces, and acrylics and inking pens when working on canvas. In some cases, D'Errico will draw a piece by hand, and then colour it digitally on her computer.[14]
References
edit- ^ Tramountanas, George A. (May 22, 2008). "Camilla d'Errico Feels the 'Burn'". CBR.com.
- ^ "Interview with Camilla d'Errico" Archived 2008-09-26 at the Wayback Machine. mangapunk.com
- ^ Interview on Nightmares & Fairy Tales - Artist Camilla d'Errico. mangapunk.com Archived 2008-08-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Thill, Scott (March 19, 2009). "Grant Morrison Talks Brainy Comics, Sexy Apocalypse". Wired. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
There's this big comic idea I've been working on for the last few years—briefly called Warcop, and now known as The New Bible
- ^ Pierce, Leonard (July 22, 2009). "Interview Grant Morrison". The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
Then there's The New Bible, the final title for the project I'm doing with Camilla D'Errico.
- ^ "Camilla d'Errico on Inspiration, Pop Surrealism, and "Inappropriate" Images". Print Magazine. 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
- ^ "Camilla d'Errico". Dorothy Circus Gallery. 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
- ^ "TNTM Artist Camilla dErrico interview". Zia Comics. 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
- ^ "MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 3 TPB: Profile: Dark Horse Comics". Dark Horse Comics. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
- ^ Talk Nerdy to Me Camilla dErrico interview, retrieved 2020-02-03
- ^ "Kuro Plush at camilladerrico.com". Archived from the original on 2010-10-18. Retrieved 2010-10-16.
- ^ "vinyl | Camilla d'Errico". Retrieved 2020-02-03.
- ^ "Reveal: Camilla d'Errico's Kuro GID – Vinyl Pulse". Retrieved 2020-02-03.
- ^ "FAQ" Archived 2013-04-30 at the Wayback Machine. camilladerrico.com. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
External links
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- Official website
- Camilla D'Errico at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Camilla D'Errico Beinart Gallery, Artist page
- A summary of her projects