CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK WRITING
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DUPLICATE
Original pilot script
Set in the future during a pandemic of organ failure, a scientist becomes a victim of his own technology. "Minority Report" meets "Repo Men."
Status: Developed into a comic book series. Pitching as animated television series.
Recognition: Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival
TELEVISION WRITING
SUITS - USA NETWORK
Episode 206 "All In"
Webisode "Mini-Mike"
Writer: Karla Nappi
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2199758/
COMIC BOOK WRITING
Karla Nappi
UNDER THE BRIDGE
Feature Film Script
A coming-of-age story about a young woman and her beloved grandmother.
SHATTERED
Original pilot script
A young man takes up the mantle of his mentor and becomes a private investigator, but the secrets from his past threaten to destroy his future.
THE SOUL CATCHER
Original pilot script
Upon his death, a murderer is given the opportunity to redeem himself by becoming a soul catcher, an otherworldly being who recovers human souls.
CHRISTMAS SNOW
Christmas Television Movie Treatment
As the Christmas holidays approach, Walter, a reclusive author, looks to make amends with his estranged daughter Penelope. But Pen freezes out all his attempts until one of Walter's storybook characters, a snowman named Gus, comes to life.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Original pilot script
Following a catastrophic war injury, Joanna, a conflict photographer, finds herself caught in a conspiracy that tests the bounds of reality.
Recognition: Semi-Finalist BlueCat Screenplay Competition
MISTLETOE AND HOLLY
Christmas Television Movie Treatment
Injured and facing a difficult recovery, a little girl escapes to a magical world where Christmas is celebrated all year round, and her parents are still together. But the more time she spends in this alternate reality, the more her health declines, and she must decide which world she's going to embrace.
THE HOTEL
Writer: Karla Nappi
Artist: Oenomene
Lettering: Carlos M. Mangual
Anthology: Nightmare Theater
The Hotel is a short comic story about a family in crisis who become owners of a mysterious hotel.
NABARANG
An animated supernatural suspense series.
A young Filipino American woman upends her life to rescue her estranged grandfather in the Philippines from a deadly curse, and ignites her forbidden destiny as a supernatural healer.
Created with animator and paranormal expert Sapphire Sandalo.
Status: Currently Pitching
DUPLICANT
Writer/Creator: Karla Nappi
Art: Marianna Strychowska
Lettering/Production (Issue 1): Joshua Reed
Lettering/Production (Issue 2 Fwd): Carlos Mangual
Cover: Linework, Leila del Duca, Colors, Owen Gieni
Editor (Issue 1): Vince Hernandez
Editor (Issue 5): Beth Scorzato
In the future, humanity is afflicted with a pandemic of organ failure. A glimmer of hope comes in the form of Matt Travers, a scientist who creates duplicate organs that saves humanity - only their high cost forces people into indentured servitude. In answer to this, a dangerous black market arises which is run by a religious fanatic and Matt's former mentor.
Following Matt’s deadly encounter with a “Duplicant,” a recipient of his technology, Matt’s life blows up. He comes to question everything he knows as he strives to learn the truth behind his encounter, and along the way uncovers an even bigger mystery about the fate of mankind.
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PETAL THE TIMID INVENTOR
Writer: Karla Nappi
Artist: Mariah Terry
Lettering/Production: Carlos M. Mangual
Meet Petal. She's a pangolin, and an inventor. When a lowland anoa, a maleo bird, and an orangutan move to her island, Petal uses her imagination to invent a way to embrace her shyness, and help her make her very first friends.
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