SHOW & TELL - SIMONE BIANCHI TALKS WOLVERINE

**MattBrady** · 12-21-2006, 02:39 PM

by Zack Smith

European artist Simone Bianchi made a big impression in the U.S. last year with his action-packed work on Shining Knight as part of Grant Morrison’s Seven Soldiers event.

Since then, readers have seen Bianchi’s art on Green Lantern #6 with Geoff Johns, along with a variety of covers. Now, he’s poised for his biggest project yet with his new storyline on Wolverine with superstar writer Jeph Loeb beginning with January's issue #50. Newsarama caught up with Bianchi to talk about his new project.

Newsarama: Simone, first off all, why did you decide to move to Marvel from DC?

Simone Bianchi: Well, this decision was due to more than one factor. First of all, I have grown up reading Marvel characters, and the idea to draw their stories for sure played a role. Also, I was told at Marvel they would do their best to make the best possible promotional work, and you can imagine how this can be important for a foreigner artist who is not known by everybody in this field to have his works being well-promoted...

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victorderas · 12-21-2006, 02:58 PM

It really looks good...

nickmaynard · 12-21-2006, 02:59 PM

is that morry hollowell on colors?
that art is just breathtaking.

Crump's Brother · 12-21-2006, 03:03 PM

Shining Knight was really great. And this looks like another great book from Bianchi.

dorwaystudios · 12-21-2006, 03:05 PM

At least Simone knows how tall Wolverine is...unlike most of Marvel these days....

Hoffmeister · 12-21-2006, 03:06 PM

An amazing character that you're not allowed to reveal, eh? Well, I've got my guesses.

bebopeva88 · 12-21-2006, 03:16 PM

Awesome, awesome art; Bianchi is outstanding. Really psyched for this, I can't remember the last time I was thins excited for the Wolverine solo book (probably since #145 when he got the adamantium back). I really might get both the color and the B & W edition, and I very reraly buy variants or alternates of the same issue.

BTW, how sweet would the Inhumans by Bianchi be?

tyopot · 12-21-2006, 03:32 PM

no thanks, really. i'm not that interested
with mr. bianchi's work, its just not my cup of tea sorry. there's a ton of artists i'm still waiting on to do wolverine.

artiepants · 12-21-2006, 03:34 PM

this looks seriously amazing, nice to see a creative team on Wolverine that doesn't make me want to gouge out my eyes

PoisonElf · 12-21-2006, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nickmaynard

is that morry hollowell on colors?
that art is just breathtaking.

Yeah, that's Morry.

Bry Kotyk · 12-21-2006, 03:49 PM

Gorgeous artwork.

Hideous costume.

Bearpod91 · 12-21-2006, 03:49 PM

I wanna see this guy do a spidey comic.

lpjunior · 12-21-2006, 03:58 PM

Personally, Simone's style is WAY too Heavy Metal for me and lends itself a lot to ugliness (like aliens and demons) but that's just my preference.

O.J. Flow · 12-21-2006, 04:00 PM

...I may very well get this.
Saying A TON seeing as I've NEVER seen the value, except on a commercial level, for a Wolverine solo title.
But that's just me.

Vyper · 12-21-2006, 04:15 PM

I like everything except Wolverine's mask. It just looks ridiculous in those images.

Kolimar · 12-21-2006, 04:20 PM

Good interview. Fantastic art.

bebopeva88 · 12-21-2006, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tyopot

no thanks, really. i'm not that interested
with mr. bianchi's work, its just not my cup of tea sorry. there's a ton of artists i'm still waiting on to do wolverine.

Such as...?

Kolimar · 12-21-2006, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MattBrady

Then I take the pencil and start doing the inks together with Andrea Silvestri (my assistant, but most of all a great artist) and we use the photo reference to mainly study lights and shadows and do the halftones.

Europeans, Asians and Latin Americans in Marvel and DC

artiepants · 12-21-2006, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nickmaynard

is that morry hollowell on colors?
that art is just breathtaking.

Quote:

Originally Posted by PoisonElf

Yeah, that's Morry.

the interview says it's Paul Mounts

red-maverick · 12-21-2006, 04:47 PM

I'm usually pretty easy-going when it comes to art and his art is just kick-ass, I thought shining knight was kickass but I think Bianchi's realistic style might not suit Wolverine's costume.Wolverine's costume is a lot more cartoony.

RedRonin · 12-21-2006, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by artiepants

the interview says it's Paul Mounts

Yeah. I think Morry only did this image.

I think the interiors are by Paul Mounts. Which, no offense to Mounts, sort of sucks. As I love Morry's colors. He always brings out the best in his artist's work.

bishop-m · 12-21-2006, 05:25 PM

This looks awesome! I can't wait for this to hit the stands...

BATFAN · 12-21-2006, 05:30 PM

I didnt follow the Seven Soldiers saga but i picked up Shining Knight #1 because the cover caught my eye, to my surprise the interior art was awesome, blew me away and i thought to myself "this Bianchi guy is gonna be big" well, looks like he's on his way.

chris80x · 12-21-2006, 05:33 PM

I'm really looking forward to the upcoming issues of Wolverine. The art is just beautiful, Jeph Loeb who is one of my favorite writers is handling the story, and it's a Wolvie vs. Sabretooth story which I always enjoy with some reveals about their long history.

I gotta say though, even though Mr. Bianchi's b&w art looks nice the color adds so much to it that I'm going to have to choose the color version. It jumps off the page.

I wonder what his upcoming project is....

Lucifer · 12-21-2006, 05:33 PM

I love Simone Bianchi's art...I dropped Wolverine a long time ago but I'm definitely going to pick this up. Can't wait to see what's going on with the pages of the Sabretooth...cat...people... things???????