Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.

Underground > Comic Books >

Paul Pope

Page: (1)2

Pin

18:43 / 20.11.01

So as I know that we did this before, but still... what other things with ISBN's ahs the man done other the Heavy Liquid? Worth buying more? When's his new thing out?

Info, people! Info!

18:49 / 20.11.01

My favourite Paul Pope book is The One trick Rip-Off (ISBN 1-56971-244-1).

Double-crossin, lovers-on-the-lam crime story, with psychic powers.

His next, 100% should be out early next year.

19:00 / 20.11.01

I prefer the ballad of Doctor Richardson, a beautiful, detailed, subtle tale.

ISBN1-882402-18-9

For more info on paul pope, check his website.

22:11 / 20.11.01

By The Balls has spot illustrations by Pope. The cover too.
ISBN 0-9663473-0-7
Also Five Shots and a Funeral
ISBN 0-9663473-1-5
Both books are written by Fassbender and Pascoe with illos and covers by Pope.

23:46 / 20.11.01

quote:Originally posted by sleazenation:
I prefer the ballad of Doctor Richardson, a beautiful, detailed, subtle tale.

Sigh. That one's my favourite too. I lent it out and will probably never see it again.

Pin

06:56 / 22.11.01

So was THB any good? The site keeps going on about two collections (THB A and THB B, I think), but I seem to remember, round the time that someone brought up 100%, that it wasn't collected. Any news on it, and will it include the large format issues?

23:44 / 29.11.01

THB is my favorite comic right now. The most recent issue was THB6d. Its my favorite Pope comic so far. The art is just amazing and the characters and stories are so fun. I love the format too. 96 fucking pages of fun!

I've got THB 1 but I don't have any of 2-5. (Is it even out there?) I've got THB6 a, b, c and d. Its pretty easy to follow without having read the earlier stuff. Pope uses a lot of old school narrative techniques to explain things so its easy to catch up. It reminds me of old Fantastic Four comics where ever few issues Stan and Jack would give you diagrams of the Baxter Building and FF gadgets. Pope is the only writer I can think of right now who does that type of thing without it seeming corny (At least in American comics anyway.). Somehow he keeps it simple, fresh and fun.

THB and Heavy Liqud are the only things I've seen by him except for a few guest pages he's done here and there. I'd love to see the rest of his stuff.

14:27 / 30.11.01

I've only read Heavy Liquid & The One Trick Rip Off and they're both cool as the proverbial fuck -

he has to be one of the best people currently doing comics.

Unspeakably good.

17:36 / 08.04.02

Okay, just thought I'd bump this thread up as 100% by Paul Pope is in the latest Previews and I was looking for info on whether to buy it. It looks like the consensus is to buy that, and also add Heavy Liquid and The Ballad of Dr Richardson to my find list. Are his larger stories better than that Buzz magazine thing he put out? I hated that.

18:47 / 08.04.02

I loved Dr Richardson, and heavey liquid was also very fine though i found a little too expensive (so i just read my housemate's copies...) so yeah- if you can stand the cover price... 100% will be well worth it

05:46 / 09.04.02

Why is it so expensive? Is it paper or printing costs?

09:14 / 09.04.02

it was expensive because it was prestige format vertigo: more pages and no ads. the trade's about £15 though, i think. i dunno, i bought the comics when they came out, though i think you can pick 'em up cheap from marts now that the book's out....

21:31 / 09.04.02

there is a very beautiful collection of three short connected stories about an escape artist called ESCAPO (for sale on amazon). it´s wonderfully designed, very poetic and romantic stories

the various THB-related oversized specials are also lovely. I liked Buzz!

he´s been going on about collections of the THB series for years, the first time i read about them in a letter column in 1998 and then the THB back issues cost so damn much I thought it was about time..now those back issues are all long gone but no collections in sight..

I liked Heavy Liquid a lot, but Paul himself is pissed at DC since they changed the agreed format in which the book should have been published and he thinks they have done a shitty job for the collection, also he thinks the price is unfairly high

I can recommend anything by the man (except his earliest pre-THB work which I´m not familiar with). One-trick rip off is great too!

I´d pester him via e-mail to finally put out the THB collections

04:57 / 10.04.02

Heavy Liquid in collection is well over £20 which is what's been putting me off for a while now. That's the price of two other books near enough, and feels extortionate to me. But I'll keep an eye out for Dr Richardsonfirst next time I'm in town.

Murray Hamhandler

22:51 / 10.04.02

FYI-See also:

Paul Pope's 100% previewed

Murray Hamhandler

22:23 / 11.04.02

Paul Pope will be writing and illustrating Spider Man's Tangled Web #15, tentatively dated for June 26.
Arthur Sudnam, II

22:27 / 11.04.02

mmmm that should be well worth the price of admission... don't think i can recall ever seeing a four colour P.P. comic...

05:29 / 12.04.02

Heavy Liquid in collection is well over £20 which is what's been putting me off for a while now.

What put me off was all of the Verve Pipe references. Y'know, if you want to be a bad consumer like me, you could just read it in the bookshop. Got through the whole book in one sitting. Man, I suck.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

11:12 / 12.04.02

Anyone read his short and sweet story in Non 5? He's just getting too freakin' good.

I hope all your NYers made it to that Non signing last weekend. It was fab, as was Non 5.

Benjamin.

19:41 / 12.03.04

THB is amazing. Escapo is really good, imho.. but I'm a huge fan of Pope and Mars.

20:54 / 12.03.04

I love Pope. Met him a few times, he's a pretty cool dude.

What is Non 5 and why have I never heard of it? Is it related to his THB stuff?

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

21:19 / 12.03.04

Non is Jordan Crane's out of control anthology. You might have seen its neon awesomeness in some of America's finer comic shoppes, and perhaps even overseas. It contains the work of Jordan himself, no slouch, and the likes of Pope, Brian Ralph, David Choe, and many others. It was one of the first in the new and hot trend of very large and heavy and pretty comics anthologies.

Jordan is awesome.

23:51 / 12.03.04

Excuse the slightly drunk sentiment, but Paul Pope? OOOOOoooooverrrated.
[cough]
Then again I recall posting the same about Grant M about 10 years ago to a usenet group...

14:44 / 13.03.04

I didn't know he did a Spiderman story. How was that anyway?

I've never read THB and I really want to. I hate hunting rare expensive singles which is why I haven't haven't checked out Black Hole yet either.

I read Heavy Liquid which I thought was nice but I expected better. His gem for me was a short story in Negative Burn called "Portrait of a Girl with an unpronouncable name." I wish I hadn't lost that issue.

Horatio Hellpop

21:00 / 13.03.04

i really wish his early short work was collected somewhere...all the negative burn stories (so i can throw out the issues i keep just for some crappy four-page pope), odds and ends from everywhere else, maybe they could even include sin titulo and the ballad of dr. richardson but that might be stretching a little too much (especially since ballad is such a perfect little object as it is). when can we expect this? probably never. but i keep hope alive.

14:41 / 29.03.04

anyone know what s in the Best of Negative Burn Year Two TPB? Pope did most of his Negative Burn stuff in this timeframe and I'd like to know how much of it made this trade. The best of Year One has one Pope thing In it, but I cant find any info about year two online...

Keith, like a scientist

19:34 / 26.07.07

now, THIS is excellent news:

First Second Books announced today its plan to publish Paul Pope's highly anticipated multi-volume Martian epic, TOTAL THB, as well as an original commission for young readers, BATTLING BOY.

Pope's sprawling TOTAL THB-a full-color, four-volume set totaling over 1200 pages-is scheduled to release in 2009. (An oversize Deluxe Collectors edition in black and white is planned as well). TOTAL THB will include the never-before-seen final chapters of the story, whose teenage heroine HR Watson comes of age on Mars with her extraordinary protector 'THB', a water-activated, inflatable bodyguard.

BATTLING BOY, to be published as a series in two simultaneous volumes, introduces a youthful hero who faces off against various demons in the city of Monstropolis. It will be released by First Second in 2008.

Says Pope, "I'm excited about the alliance THB will have with First Second. Mark Siegel is an old-time fan of the series, and together we will finally be getting the entire THB story out there-in full color and in a series of beautifully designed trade paperbacks, falling right on the heels of BATTLING BOY."

Mark Siegel, Editorial Director of First Second, adds, "THB is a major milestone in graphic novels, and BATTLING BOY is highly accessible, his most mainstream project yet, and will introduce Paul Pope to a whole new world of readers."

Dubbed the "Jim Morrison of American comics", Pope has earned a sizeable reputation in the industry with his virtuoso brushwork and unmistakable blend of American, Japanese, and European influences. THB-Pope's magnum opus-has gained an international audience through his self-published serialization.

Pope concludes, "I've always called THB my Dune. THB is the American Akira. It's big and shimmering and strange and new, and hopefully it will reach a wide audience of readers who really love comics."

THB is really fun, but frustratingly sporadic and hard to come by. Reading the entire story in one consistent set will be nice.

20:43 / 26.07.07

Paul Pope has that new art/coffe table/HC and softcover book out, called PULPHOPE, from AdHouse Books. It's supposed to be quite excellent and I'm sure I shall be purchasing it very soon...

Keith, like a scientist

12:51 / 27.07.07

It's pretty cool (pulphope). I haven't started reading the essays, but they seem interesting. You get to see a lot of his non comics art in it, which is nice, but there seems to be an awful lot of spreads of just sketches, which seem like a bit of a waste to me. Still, completely worth it if you are a fan of Pope's art.

06:37 / 28.07.07

Can somebody explain that Jim Morrison comparison? I'm clearly missing something.

13:57 / 29.07.07

he looks a bit like Morrison, he's a good-looking dude, he has a 'sexy cool hipster dude' image like Morrison (and lives in Williasmburg, hipster uber-cool haven of Brooklyn/NYC), he sees himself - and the comics community has cast him as - sort of a 'rockstar comics artist,' the mainstream media loves him, he has tons of hot girlfriends, he exudes a fun presence, etc. etc. Is that enough for you?

17:03 / 29.07.07

Guess I was looking for exposes himself on stage and later played by Val Kilmer. But then, we all ask different things of our comics creators, don't we?

Actually, I was trying to compare their work output, and just... brick wall.

01:00 / 30.07.07

*lol* well, Pope's work is considered by many to be super-cool, visionary and groundbreaking.... but then again, you can say that for many famous creators throughout the past 20 years and no one's called them Jim Morrison. So I guess it's more of what I wrote than anything else.... Grant Morrison has a bit of the rock star image about him, and so does John Cassaday to some degree, but that's about the only people I can think of who might be called 'comics' rock stars.'

Anyway. on to more substantive things...

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

07:05 / 30.07.07

Wait, wasn't this guy in Heroes? I bet that picture is predicting the future!

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:01 / 30.07.07

And FinderWolf stole his girl!

Page: (1)2