Latest Comic Guest Announcement - DAVIDE FABBRIE

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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Davide Fabbrie

 

Attending: Saturday & Sunday

 

FIRST UK APPEARANCE

ARTIST: Star Wars; Operation Overlord; Victorian Undead; Starship Troopers

AFTER seven years of drawing (and sometimes writing) strips for L'Eternaut, Cyborg, Comic Art and Nova Express in his native Italy, Davide Fabbri was invited to draw 1996's Mutant Chronicles four-parter for Acclaim's Top Dollar Comics offshoot.

The year after making his American debut he illustrated a brace of Starship Troopers minis, which marked the beginning of a 12-year association with Dark Horse. Between 1997 and 2009 the Italian artist's focus was on a long string of Star Wars comics although he also drew sundry Xena – Warrior Princess, Planet of the Apes and Aliens vs Predator comics along the way.

As well as the Dark Horse projects, Fabbri also illustrated 2004's Fa un po Male for the Italian publisher Editore Einaudi. He followed that with illustrations for a 2005 edition of Cuore, the 1886 children's novel by Italian author Edmondo De Amicis.

With the end of his time with Dark Horse looming, in 2007 Fabbri aided fellow Italian artist Paolo Parente on the two issue's of Dust for Image's 12 Gauge imprint. Fabbri, who subsequently drew the three issues of Dust Wars (a 2010 sequel to Dust) solo, then illustrated Dynamite's Brothers in Arms, a 2008 four-parter.

His first post-Dark Horse project was 2010's Victorian Undead. A DC/WildStorm six-parter, it was followed in 2011 by the five issues of Victorian Undead II after which he had a brief flirtation with DC's Batman: Arkham Unhinged before returning to Dark Horse for a Star Wars reunion on the five issues of 2012's Agent of the Empire – Hard Targets.

Since then Fabbri has been working on Operation Overlord, a series of graphic novels set around the World War II D-Day landings. It was launched in 2014 by les éditions Glénat with the French publisher releasing the fourth volume in 2015.