Camilla d'Errico is a

comic book illustrator A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and g ...

, painter and

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Career

Comics

Camilla d’Errico has been drawing comic books since 2001, while attaining her Illustration and Design diploma at

Capilano College Capilano University (CapU) is a teaching-focused public university based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located on the slopes of the North Shore Mountains, with programming that also serves the Sea-to-Sky Corridor and the Sunshin ...

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

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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, ''

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'', was added to the studio’s project base and was subsequently published by

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in May

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. In 2006 she was asked to work on the

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for singer

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. Together with

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, d’Errico co-created the two-part graphic novel, entitled ''Make 5 Wishes'', which was published in

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and

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in North America and by

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in Asia. In 2007, d’Errico became the artist for

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’s series, '' Nightmares & Fairy Tales'', published by

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, from issue 19 to issue 23.

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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,

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on his creator-owned project ''The New Bible'' (previously named ''Warcop'').

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, 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

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. She is among the group of female artists including

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, and Amy Sol who paint beautiful young girls in the

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category.

Commercial work

In parallel to comics and manga, d'Errico has done illustration and design work for The

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, Ride Snowboards,

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, Wizkids, Microsoft Zune for the Zune Hut at Whistler's Telus World Ski & Snowboard Championship, OSO Design House and Ginch Gonch.

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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, postcard sets and sketchbooks. She has a collection of tshirts at

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in addition to producing her own clothing. In June 2009, Neverwear.net released a collaborative print by d'Errico and

Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, gr ...

based on Gaiman's short story,

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. In August 2009,

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released its popular collected trade,

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Volume 3, containing the short webcomic Vampy Cat Play Friend as well as new cover art by d'Errico.

Designer toys

D'Errico has worked in vinyl toys, having customized blanks for Ad Funture, Osaka Popstar, the DCTO Jibun Project, Mindstyle &

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's Stitch Experiment and

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's Mighty Mugg for

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'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. D'Errico has also released her own designer toy, a plush based on the devil character, "Kuro" from her series, ''Tanpopo''. In 2011 a line of vinyl and resin collectibles was released at the San Diego Comic Con.

Techniques and materials

D'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."FAQ"
. camilladerrico.com. Retrieved January 30, 2012.

References

External links

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Camilla D'Errico
Beinart Gallery, Artist page

Interviews

Interview with Camilla D'Errico
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