ELFSAR BLOG

It’s now official,  artist and designer Camilla D’Errico (Nightmares & Fairy Tales) will be joining us this year for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday May 2nd!

Check out some of her fantastic art: HERE

Comics

Camilla 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.

In 2006 she was approached by House of Parlance to work on the graphic novel for singer Avril Lavigne. Together with Joshua Dysart, Camilla 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, Camilla d’Errico became the artist  for Serena Valentino’s series, Nightmares & Fairy Tales, published by Slave Labour Graphics, beginning with issue 19.

Painting

Camilla 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, Camilla d’Errico has been a regular participant in group shows in the Los Angeles galleries Thinkspace, Copro Nason and Gallery 1988. She is among the group of female artists including Audrey Kawasaki, Amy Sol, and Stella-im-Hultberg, who paint females as their subjects. She is part of what may be the first art movement in Western history where women are not second-class citizens, but may even have an edge in the mind of the public, especially when it comes to capturing the essence that is woman. One of the main features of Camilla d’Errico’s paintings is the emotional complexity evident in each character and the fact that every girl always shows a different and intriguing mix of emotions.

Commercial work

In parallel to comics and manga, Camilla has done illustration and design work for Ride Snowboards, Hasbro Toys, Wizkids, OSO Design House and Ginch Gonch, amongst others.

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. She has taken a page from Tokidoki and launched into creative collaborations with many companies in merchandise, foremost with OSO Design House, which launched a line of handbags and accessories designed by Camilla.