Enrico’s blog

Wow, I just found this old file of some fan art I did of Porco Rosso’s pirates “Mamma Aiuto”. A blast from the past, this drawing is more than 10 years old! I used to do these in pencil, ink them , scan them and then color in Photoshop. It’s kind of how I got [...]

The Kinokuniya bookstore in San Francisco’s Japantown has been
renovated and has now a lot more space inside the mall. I stopped by
Monday night before seeing the movie at the Kabuki and was throughly
impressed with the new diggs, so much I couldn’t help but buy three
books, which I’ll tell you about soon.

I finally saw the latest movie from Wes Anderson last night and while going in with medium-low expectations (some reviews have been lukewarm) I ended up really loving it! The portrait of these three neurotic damaged brothers is so alive, each one of their silly idiosincracies adds to this wonderful character study of a film. [...]

I’ve already mentioned how much I loved reading Persepolis (Vol1 and 2) and how I am really looking forward to the movie. Now you can even read an interview with Marjane Satrapi on the NYTimes. What a great read! Here’s an awesome quote from it - NYT: “Do you think cartoonists have received their [...]

Here’s a sketch/study of one of the new characters of Haiku5-7-5. I do these kind of drawings to warm up before working on some pages and also to help me establish the characters in my head.

I think Google Reader has quickly become my favorite way of keeping up with all the blog feeds I like to read. Do many of you use it?

Just finished page 25 of Haiku 5-7-5, you’ll find it here. A few years ago several artists did some awesome renditions of these gangsters. I’d love to reopen the invitation to draw any of these characters, only if you feel inspired to of course. I’d certainly be very thankful and happy to add them to [...]

The traveling sketchbook has seen some amazing additions as of late from artists of the caliber of Scott Campbell, Dominique Louis and Erik Tiemens (the painting below is his). This past weekend Dice handed off the book to James Jean who’s next in line to work on the book, here’s an amusing video of their [...]

Here’s Mozza’s new apartment building … fancy Swedish design. Built with the sweat of Italian labor.

When the fall comes clouds get really beautiful around San Francisco.