Mirka Andolfo’s Sweet Paprika Ink Sketch Cover

A highly-detailed inked sketch by Mirka Andolfo of her well-known character Paprika, from the international hit “Sweet Paprika” (published in English-speaking countries by Image Comics). The artwork is on a Sweet Paprika: Black, White & Pink blank cover.

Mirka Andolfo is a multiple award-winning Italian writer and artist, appreciated for her strong female characters. She is the creator of Unnatural, Mercy, and Sweet Paprika—in 2022, she won the prestigious Harvey Award at New York Comic Con as Best International Book, and in 2024 she got a nomination at the Eisner Awards in the category Best Single Issue/One Shot—some of the most successful comics series of the past decade. Her series are published in more than 20 countries in the world, and sold more than one million copies worldwide. She’s founding creator—together with writers/artists like Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Joëlle Jones...—at DSTLRY, a next-generation comics publisher, which publishes, in 2024, her new international series, Blasfamous. She has also collaborated with DC Comics since 2015, working on titles including Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Punchline, DC Bombshells, and Batman: White Knight Presents - Generation Joker. In 2020 she became the first Italian creator to work on both story and artwork at DC (Harley Quinn Black+White+Red), and she did it again with the recent story for the series DC vs Vampires: All-Out War. Andolfo also created or co-created series like Un/Sacred, Deep Beyond, and Purr Evil, and writes stories for Marvel Comics (Women of Marvel, Extreme Venomverse), BOOM! Studios (Buffy: the Vampire Slayer, The Amazing World of Gumball), Dynamite (Red Sonja, Red Sitha, Bettie Page), The Walt Disney Company (Daisy and the Misteries of Paris, Magica). At Marvel Comics, she also illustrated two issues of the award-winning Ms. Marvel series. She graphically created the character of Red Dagger, who appears in the Marvel Studios’ television series, played by Aramis Knight. As an illustrator, she’s contributed to marketing and advertising campaigns for companies including Paramount, 20th Century Studios, Netflix, Sky, and Juventus, and has drawn comics and covers for many publishers both in Europe and in the United States.