Marvel Monograph: The Art of Sara Pichelli

Marvel Monograph

by Sara Pichelli

Sara Pichelli has left an indelible mark on Marvel's comic book pantheon as the co-creator and original illustrator of Miles Morales. Her energetic and expressive style depicts the Marvel Universe in as dramatic and brilliant a style as it has ever been depicted. Her work on SPIDER-MAN: MILES MORALES, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY and FANTASTIC FOUR - not to mention countless covers - has marked her as a superstar. The Marvel Monograph series captures the magic of Sara Pichelli from every angle, in an artist study that will be a keepsake for your art book collection.

Genres: Comics

112 pages, Paperback

Published October 8, 2019

About the author

Sara Pichelli is an Italian comics artist best known for first illustrating the Miles Morales version of Ultimate Spider-Man. After starting her career in animation, Pichelli entered the comic book industry working for IDW Publishing before joining Marvel Comics in 2008 after getting discovered in an international talent search. After having worked on several Marvel titles, such as Namora, Pichelli was hired as the main artist on the second volume of Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, which premiered in September 2011. Pichelli won a 2011 Eagle Award for Favorite Newcomer Artist. - From Wikipedia

Reviews

[Frédéric · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very disappointing: comic pages and illustations reprints and a few comments here and there and nothing else.

Art is very good of course, I really like Sara Pichelli’s work, but it’s nothing I had never seen before. No roughs, no sketches, no personal studies. And the comments are sparce, close to non-existent.

Clearly Sara Pichelli deserves way better than this mere promotional stuff.

[B. P. Rinehart · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was glad to come across this retrospective of the work of the Italian comic book artist Sara Pichelli. After working as a local animator in Italy, she auditioned and became a fill-in artist at Marvel Comics for a few years before working on the last volume of Runaways. When she teamed-up with Brian Michael Bendis to work on Ultimate Comics Spider-Man. She was drawing this comic when she got the one-two punch that would change her career forever. She first was tapped to stay on the book for the mini-series that would kill the Ultimate Universe Peter Parker and be the one who would literally choose what the new Ultimate Spider-Man looked like. When this new comic debuted it made history and changed the industry (I talk more about that in my review of Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Vol. 1 & volume 4. Her art style is marked by a fluid emotion and very expressive facial reactions. It reminds one of what you would see in the shoujo genre of Japan--but with a punk rock edge or sensibility.

At this point in her career, she is sort-of like a modern-day Alex Ross: not used as a true regular or ongoing artist--but as a "specialty" artist that comes in for special projects and comic covers. As it is, her artwork was a part of my introduction comic books, so I am a solid-fan at this point.