Great news as the R2-KT Artists Month rolls on into July, proving what a success the initial month was and giving artists the chance to show off their work to a wider audience during these difficult times. Every day through out June, R2-KT focused on a talented artist of the galaxy, and now that continues into July with the latest artist, Giancarlo Bockos.
Star Wars has always been a big part of his life. His first memories of anything Star Wars related was talking about it with his Kindergarten friends, wanting a 12” Darth Vader because the lightsaber was just like the one in the movie (not the “weird” one in the small scale Kenner figure). This attention to detail would reflect years later on his passion for props.
Drawing, model making and building LEGOs as a kid fed his passion for the saga. This led to Giancarlo to all kinds of new roles: amateur comic artist and caricaturist, prop and costume maker, 3D modeler and designer. And drawing characters and vehicles off the Kenner toys catalogs turned into drawing comic strips and illustrations
Giancarlo was part of the editorial staff of the biggest Italian Star Wars website in the late 90’s : guerrestellari.net, Just when Star Wars was coming back he worked with his brother, Piero, on digital comic strips to populate the far art pages of the website. Later some of these strips were published in the “Star Wars Alliance” Italian fan club magazines, as well as in the short-lived Italian publication of the Star Wars Insider magazine.
- Hardcover Book
- Johnston, E.K. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 288 Pages - 06/02/2020 (Publication Date) - Random House/Star Wars (Publisher)
