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A quadruple (!!!) variant cover for Topolino #3541, gorgeously illustrated by Andrea Freccero, featuring more than 40 different characters, meant to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Disney-Panini (2013-2023).
The characters chosen represent some of the most important stories of these 10 years and, as you can see from the progress from the very first concept (links below), in the end, it became a situation where all the characters are someway trying to get into the selfie picture that Gyro is taking.
As a special effect, Freccero chose to add yellow as the background color, this makes the characters pop.
In the additional images, the cover with digital colors.
Please also check the other roughs & prelims, as well as the final cover art, which shows the progress and the changes applied before nailing the final composition:
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prelim 4Huge thanks to Andrea and Giacomo!
Paper size: 21.7 x 84 cm