Book Expo America featured Paul Pope in their In Your Space series of interviews that explore the studios of creatives. (Click the link to watch the video).
If you listen closely, about three minutes into the interview, you might get a kick.
Pope’s got quite a library, even if his pad is, as he calls it, a “shambolic mess.”
The Summer of Battling Boy Give-Away!
BATTLING BOY POSTERS!
First Second has trusted me to run a series of give-aways and one contest between May and Battling Boy’s release in October. This means you will have a few chances to win posters, prints, galleys (advance reader’s copies of the book) among other things.
For May, I’m giving away a few Battling Boy posters!
Rules and Guidelines:
1. Like or reblog this post and encourage your followers to do the same. The more your name is in the notes to this post the higher your chances of winning.
2. Make sure you follow Destroy Comics. This is not necessary to winning, but if I decide to check if the winner is following the blog, it will influence my decision.
3. You have two weeks.
Winners will be selected randomly and contacted on May 20th.
Good luck!
One week left! and 12 followers until the 1000th follower wins! Keep it moving!
Do it.
Whoever the 1000th follower is, I’ll probably send them some of the Battling Boy stuff I have. Spread the word!
Spreading the word.
Battling Boy ~ advanced preview
On sale: October 8th, First Second Books
by Paul Pope
I have seen the top of the mountain… and it is good.
Here. Enjoy a little slice from Paul Pope’s THB 6C.
Action! by Paul Pope; A personal favorite of mine from Pilote and later collected in THB: Comics From Mars #2.
From Paul Pope:
Originally commissioned by French magazine Pilote for their special issue dedicated to the history of cinema— Action! asks, what if Fellini wanted to revive the careers of Tom & Jerry for Cinecetta in the 1970s?
This strip also appears in English in the AdHouse special THB:CFM #2
Easter Egg: The third-to-last panel on the last page with the “Crash Boom Zip!” cartoon explosions is a subtle reference to the store logo to the Dutch bookstore, Lambiek, found in Amsterdam, Europe’s oldest comic book/bande dessine shop.
The “Pont De Oncle George” on the clapperboard in the final panel is an inside joke I have with my French editor— George Dargaud is the founder of the publishing house, Dargaud, which owns and releases the magazine Pilote. I put a reference to an “Uncle George” in all of my Dargaud strips.
Teenage Sidekick by Paul Pope. Colors by James Jean.
The Complete Tadanori Yokoo (Kodansha Ltd, 1973)
Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood (Penguin Books, 1976)
By Paul Pope
On the Complete Tadanori Yokoo, Pope said
Without a doubt, the thing in my collection of books and records and posters/prints which I love the most would be the 1977 Barron’ s reprint edition of The Complete Tadanori Yokoo, a beautiful slipcase book, essentially a graphic catalogue of prints, posters, and illustrations from 1969-1973. The book itself has many unique and invented limited color and spot color designs inside. I’ve had this book since 1995, having inherited it from a graphic designer I’ve known since I was a kid. I first saw this book in 1982, when I found the book on his bookshelf….and fell in love with Yokoo’s approach to design. It’s had a huge impact on my career choices and the book is a heavy influence on my own artbook, Pulphope, as well as my approach to screen printing.
Books are great, and if you are sophic in nature, you should have at least one book that you identify as being inseparable to the person you are; whether it’s art or motorcycle maintenance.
“Anatomic Quatro Axiomatic Manifesto”
- “Comics” is a visual language. It is a storytelling form.
- “Comics” inhabits a place between the nuance of words and the suggestion of images
- The art of good comics is doing with words and pictures exactly what you think you’re doing
- The comic not yet drawn can hold the forms of the greatest ideas an artist can have
by Paul Pope
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