Crowdfunding Spotlight: Giancarlo Caracuzzo’s “Wild Whispers”

By John Freeman on March 11, 2025

Award-winning Italian artist Giancarlo Caracuzzo has just launched a Kickstarter for his latest art book, Wild Whispers, a new collection of colour illustrations created in a variety of techniques (watercolours, acrylics and colour pencils), which explore the ancestral bond between the female figure and the animal world.

(Please be aware some images included include some semi-nudity, none featured here)

Wild Whispers art by Giancarlo Caracuzzo

Giancarlo Caracuzzo is an illustrator, storyboard artist and comic book artist, whose work has appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Formica Wars (for Marvel), Jonah Hex (DC), Random Acts of Violence (Image Comics), and other American publications.

Here in the UK, I had the pleasure of working with him on several projects when I was working for Rok Comics and Print Media Productions. Many European publishers have featured his work, too, including Les Larme D’Opium and Hercule Potiron for Editions Delcourt in France.

The campaign offers a number of exclusive rewards, in addition to the art book, including combinations of original artworks and the book, and limited special editions.

“Have you ever dreamed of seeing the feminine essence dance with nature in a timeless embrace?” asks Giancarlo. “Wild Whispers is my new artbook, a collection of 40 original illustrations created with watercolours and acrylics, where sensuality and harmony intertwine in a delicate dialogue between woman and animal.”

Many images are inspired by Liberty Art Nouveau, and Art Decò style, which are great artistic passions of Giancarlo’s.

“Each image is a fragment of visual poetry,” he explains, “a female figure merges with the presence of an animal in an encounter of gazes, gestures, and invisible bonds. Panthers cloaked in shadow, deer whispering secrets, foxes with mesmerizing eyes… Each pair tells a story, a quest for balance between nature’s primal strength and human grace, transforming nature into pure visual poetry…

“This is probably the most ambitious and challenging project of my career,” the accomplished artist feels.

“Supporting the campaign means supporting an independent work of art, and your support will be essential to bring this artistic vision of mine to life.

“Get ready to be part of this artistic journey. Because every whisper of nature deserves to be heard… and transformed into art.”

• You can support Wild Whispers – The Art of Harmony Between Woman and Nature by Giancarlo Caracuzzo here on Kickstarter – Mature Content Warning

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.