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| Genre | Science, fiction, Horror, Pop-Culture |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2005 |
| Founder | Tony Trov & Johnny Zito |
| Headquarters | Philadelphia PA , USA |
| Website | SouthFellini.com |
South Fellini is an American media and apparel studio established by Tony Trov and Johnny Zito in 2005.
Trov and Zito began to collaborate while attending Temple University. South Fellini became the umbrella name for all creative projects made by the duo since 2005. [1]
In 2008, South Fellini won a comic book competition with their Girl Gang VS Zombie series Black Cherry Bombshells at Zuda Comics, a digital imprint of DC Comics. Zuda Comics also purchased their second series about South Philadelphia vampires titled LaMorte Sisters. Continuing their time in the comic book industry, a self published book titled Carnivale Robotique was released for Indie Skip Week. Their series Moon Girl was the first series published by Comixology and was printed to a graphic novel by Red 5 Comics. [2]
Following their time in the comic book industry, the duo wrote and directed two feature length horror comedies that were distributed by Gravitas Ventures. In 2013 Alpha Girls: A Satanic Sorority Slasher was released. Following the success of the film, American Exorcist was released in 2018. [3]
South Fellini opened their first brick and mortar shop on East Passyunk Avenue South Philadelphia in 2016. In 2019 South Fellini grabbed headlines for dressing Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies on his first home game in Philadelphia. [4] Later than year South Fellini was in the news again for opening a second location in Fashion District Philadelphia that featured the mannequin prop from the 1987 film Mannequin (1987_film). [5] In 2021 a Free Blockbuster was launched at the Passyunk Avenue shop location. [6]
During lockdown of Covid 19, South Fellini returned to producing media content starting with podcast dedicated to Philadelphia History titled Legends of Philadelphia.
In 2022, an ongoing project of short animated cartoons titled Wild Jawns began to be released on Instagram and Youtube. The cartoon was inspired by their art installation collaboration with street artist Kid Hazo. [7]
In 2023 began released a monthly multimedia hauntology project called Hoagiewave which featured lost Philadelphia media with original music by Trov. The music was released as an album on Spotify Apple Music and on cassette. [8]
Jughead is an ongoing comic book series featuring the Archie Comics character of the same name. The character first appeared in Pep Comics #22. Jughead proved to be popular enough to warrant his own self-titled ongoing comic book series which began publication in January 1949.
Mannequin is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Gottlieb in his directorial debut, and written by Edward Rugoff and Gottlieb. It stars Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty, James Spader, Meshach Taylor, and G. W. Bailey. The original music score was composed by Sylvester Levay. The film revolves around a chronically underemployed passionate artist named Jonathan Switcher who lands a job as a department-store window dresser and the mannequin he created which becomes inhabited by the spirit of a woman from Ancient Egypt, but only comes alive for Jonathan.
Brother Power the Geek is a comic book character created in the late 1960s for DC Comics by Joe Simon. He first appeared in Brother Power the Geek #1.
Zuda Comics was DC Comics' webcomics imprint from 2007 until 2010. Some of the imprints series won awards and nominations from comic industry's Glyph Comics Awards and Harvey Awards. Bayou, Volume 1 was also named one of the 2010 Great Graphic Novels for Teens by the American Library Association.
High Moon is a horror Western webcomic series featuring werewolves. It was developed in 2004 with a debut in 2007 as a part of Zuda, DC Comics' webcomic imprint. The first season concluded on July 8, 2008. Season two ran from August 16 to November 25, 2008. Season three began its run on February 9, 2009. Season four began its run on October 3, 2009. Serialization ended when Zuda Comics shut down in 2010. Papercutz re-released High Moon in a new collection in 2017, consisting of three volumes for their Super Genius imprint.
The Black Cherry Bombshells is a webcomic from DC imprint Zuda Comics, created by Johnny Zito and Tony Trov, illustrated by Sacha Borisich and colors by John Dallaire. It was selected as winner of Zuda's March 2008 competition. In 2014, the rights to the series returned to the creators and was re-released by South Fellini.
The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama is a webcomic starring "a high-flying llama, a sword-swinging cat, and a rocket as loyal as a cowboy hero's horse." Created by Alex Langley while he was a student at Henderson State University, the comic first appeared in a comic book titled The Workday Comic.
Tony Trov is an American film maker, comic book creator and musician best known for as a co-creator of Philadelphia studio South Fellini.
Johnny Zito is a writer, film maker and artist best known for as a co-creator of Philadelphia studio South Fellini.
Moon Girl is a fictional character published by EC Comics from 1947 to 1949. Moon Girl is a character from the Golden Age of Comic Books and has since passed into the public domain. Her secret identity is Claire Lune, a junior high history teacher.
Iconology Inc., d/b/a ComiXology, was a cloud-based digital distribution platform for comics owned by Amazon, with over 200 million comic downloads as of September 2013. At its height it offered a selection of more than 100,000 comic books, graphic novels, and manga across Android, iOS, Kindle Fire, Windows 10, and the Internet. In 2023, the ComiXology app was officially retired and the material was made available exclusively on the Amazon Kindle app.
Alpha Girls is a 2013 comedy horror film directed by Tony Trov and Johnny Zito and starring Falon Joslyn, Nikki Bell and featuring Ron Jeremy and Schoolly D.
Comic-Con Russia is a speculative fiction entertainment annual exhibition and fan convention of computer and video games, TV series and comic movies in Russia, organized by the committee of the Russian Game Developers Conference and Bubble Comics. First convention was held alongside the 2014 IgroMir.
American Exorcist is a 2018 independent horror film directed by Tony Trov and Johnny Zito and starring Bill Moseley and Falon Joslyn. It was released in October 2018.
Jacob Pander and Arnold Pander, known commercially as The Pander Brothers, are American comic book creators, artists, and filmmakers. They are best known for their work on the comics titles Grendel: Devil's Legacy, Batman: City of Light, The Batman Chronicles, and Girlfiend.
Notable events of 2008 in webcomics.
DC Comics Bombshells refers to a line of figurines released by DC Collectibles depicting DC Comics superheroines in a retro 1940s look based on designs by Ant Lucia. The line has further expanded to encompass variant covers of DC Comics and licensed memorabilia such as art prints, T-shirts, mugs and their own ongoing comic book.
Jawn is a slang term local to Philadelphia and, by extension, the Delaware Valley that may refer to a thing, place, person, or event, substituting for a specific name. Jawn is a context-dependent substitute noun; a noun that substitutes for other nouns. Jawn can be singular or plural. Examples include: "These jawns are expensive!", "pass me that jawn", "that new jawn", "this jawn is packed".