5/4/2012
A big thank you to   for the daily deviation!
5/2/2012
For those of you in the South Florida area, Come out on Free comic book day Saturday May 5th at Docking Bay Comics 7710 NW 56th Way Coconut Creek FL 33073  I'll be selling and signing prints.

2/7/12
Here's a quick update, Sorry I've been away for a awhile. I had a little sports related injury, doing better now but here's some good news,  I just finished all the art chores on a creator owned project. 27 fully illustrated pages! More info soon on that! I'm still coming up with the logo and doing the fonts for the comic book and a few tweaks to an older page. I'm excited that it's almost finished after working the project on and off for a while between other work, its finally getting done!  

Also, check out the new website one of my best buddies has up. She's super excited about it, I think it turned out great!
CindyFay.com   [link]
Here's a thumbnail link again to the piece I did for her a while ago.  (its also on her front page)
  

12/6/11
Signed 8x12 Prints are 2 for $25 (plus $5 shipping & handling) Signed 20x30 inch Posters are  $60 (plus $10 shipping & handling)  This goes for almost any piece in my gallery, contact me for further info. I take paypal. (This is mostly for USA, any  international  orders have to be willing to pay extra for shipping and handling)

Some examples:


          

9/13/2011

*Here's a new interview I did with Khuan Tru!
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Cool little update* I just found out that Image Comics has been using my cover at their booths in the major conventions! Check it out!


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Tumblr:  [link]

Click link to visit portfolio site:  [link]

And don't forget to join my FACEBOOK page:
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The long awaited project is here! Green Noise is a full comic book story featuring Hulk and Spider-man! I've been been working on this for a while in between doing other work. Its a portfolio/resume/free comic book I've been wanting to do for a long time to showcase my story telling/sequential art. Its also for YOU the fan to read and enjoy. All art chores, pencils, paints, layouts, lettering are done by me Vinnie Tartamella. The writing was done by my brother Frankie Tartamella. We came up with a fun little story together to showcase some of the characters we love and enjoy, and we hope that you will enjoy them too.  [link]

Click the link to start reading the issue!
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or click on these images!
                         

11/30
Here are some screen shots and video from the View. Barbara Walters talking about her comic book and enjoying the cover work I did  of her   She also showed my Michelle Obama and Oprah covers too.



And here's the youtube upload (note its my first time uploading anything, so sorry if it doesn't look so great haha)

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*This info, my art & name are also on MTV's website [link]

9/10
My Beatles cover is on MTV's site check out the link!
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6/29
Check out the Newsarama link for more info on my Michael Jackson cover!
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I wanted  everyone to know that the Michelle Obama issue made the Diamond top 100 best selling comic list for April! I think its totally awesome since 96-97% of the books were all Marvel and DC titles!  (She came in at 89 and then 52 on the sales rank)

And my Michelle Obama comic book cover was even shown on Larry King live!



~Vinnie Tartamella
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4/30
The Female Force: Michelle Obama issue has SOLD OUT! The issue featuring my cover has sold over 50,000 copies!

Here's a link to a new interview I did for Comicnews.info
[link] want give a big thank you to my friend Victoria Centeno for the interview. She's a lovely person, beautiful model, and writer.

4/22
Here's are some links to a new nbc interview I did around April 10th. It was shown across the country.
*And there is a correction to be made in those links. The Michelle Obama issue has sold over 40,000 copies. (in pre-orders so far) *

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~Vinnie Tartamella

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Here's a new interview I did for my friends at Artemisia, its a great new blog page for women in art! Melissa Findley and Louisa Gallie run the site, both great people and artists. So stop by when you can and check out the interview
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And now you can order these Female Force comic books through Amazon.com! Just type my full name or the name of the series (Female Force) in their search engine.

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Here are some shots of my first MSNBC interview with Norah O'Donnell





Here are some links from the interview I did with the Sun-Sentinel!
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Here are some links to the news articles/interviews that are out there now.

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Also, here's a link to an online interview I did for Jazma Online:  [link]

More news and art to come!
~Vinnie Tartamella

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Here's my work bio:

Self taught artist

Freelancing comic book artist and digital fantasy art painter & concept artist
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Here's a list of some of my past jobs and/or current work

*2011 Hack/Slash Image Comics issue 3 cover (Previous cover, Devil's Due (Hack/Slash issue 16 cover)

*Blue Water comics (Political Power, Black Beard Legacy, Sinbad, Female Force)
National media coverage and I also did  live interviews for MSNBC on these covers.

*Lead Designer McFarlane toys (2000-2001)
.....Tortured Souls series 2 figures based off of Clive Barker stories
.....Images' 10th anniversary series, Kiss, Iron Maiden Mcfarlane monsters
.....Viking Age (full line) Onimusha 2
(I also made some weapon designs for Onimusha 2 Capcom game)

*Black Halo Entertainment  (character designs and art pinups)

*ToyBiz designs (Spiderman toy designs)

*Bowen Designs

*Diamond Select toys (marvel busts and toys)

*Story board artist

*Paperback cover artist

* Feature in Imagine FX Fantasy digital art magazine issue 30
I also appeared in print in various other magazines, comics and web sites

More works to come! Stay tuned

~Vinnie Tartamella

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