Battling Boy Archives

Paul Pope has issued an update on the latest with his two big comic book series THB and Battling Boy, currently being published by First Second He posts "As of last week, all 1000+ pages of THB have been delivered to :01 I am still working on Battling Boy vol 2 More news on both[...]

Plan B Entertainment, Brad Pitt's production company, has picked Patrick Osborne to direct their upcoming adaptation of Paul Pope's graphic novel Battling Boy Osborne won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film this year for Feast He's also worked on full-length animated features such as Wreck-It Ralph, Tangled, The Polar Express and Big Hero 6. As[...]

By Cameron Hatheway September 30th marks the release of The Rise of Aurora West from First Second Books, the prequel to Paul Pope's Eisner award-winning Battling Boy One of the things I noted in my review of the prequel was artist David Rubín's fantastic illustrations of both characters and action sequences Rubín was nice enough to[...]

By Cameron Hatheway Paul Pope's Eisner award-winning Battling Boy garnered heaps of acclaim last year, and with good reason The story of the son of a god saving a city ripe with criminals and monsters was action-packed and memorable, captivating readers with Pope's dynamic style and storytelling While he's hard at work on the second Battling[...]

I'm looking out for the continuation of Paul Pope's Battling Boy characters, whenever that stuff hits I've been getting a big kick out of Warren Ellis' Moon Knight issues, and for the first issue, at least, I'm digging his Supreme head trip Generally, whatever Image Comics is doing, I'm keen to at least check out,[...]

Battling Boy, from FirstSecond Books, written and illustrated by Paul Pope Paul Pope is always at home in the macro-level planning of a long-form work and Battling Boy is a testament to that Here we see that scope as well as an intrinsic commitment to visual storytelling in every panel, and an all-ages appropriate narrative to[...]

Angoulême, the best and biggest comic book festival in the Western world, has unveiled it's official selection for its 41st year, a list of what it considers to be the best comic books published in French, from which the show's final winning awards will be chosen. Familiar titles for regular Bleeding Cool readers include Paul Pope's[...]

Joe Glass writes; So I recently did an interview with Paul Pope, talking about his wonderful new book, Battling Boy You can even still read it, if so inclined, here. Now, I had asked a few other questions that I was waiting to hear back from, and today I received the answers to them Some nice little[...]

Joseph Glass writes; This year's NYCC saw the launch of Battling Boy for comics legend Paul Pope I had the chance to have a quick chat with Paul about his new book, and why he wanted to make an all ages title in today's comic book market. Paul, obviously, you've been working in comics for a while[...]

 The setting doesn't allow for any possible examination of things young readers may currently be experiencing (racism, sexism, gangs, violence etc…) and every other issue seems to involve friendships breaking over squabbles about who gets to "go steady" with Archie. AN EASY BATTLE TO WIN The Huffington Post loves Paul Pope's Battling Boy. Both Pope's writing and art[...]

Next week sees the launch of Shaolin Cowboy, Coffin Hill, Superman/Wonder Woman, Forever Evil Arkham, Memory Collectors, Triple Helix,  Three, Rocket Girl, the final issue of America's Got Powers, the beginning of Walking Dead's All Out War and new Infinity… There's also Paul Pope's Battling Boy from First Second, Afterlife With Archie and Death Note from[...]

This year, at the "The Future: Big New Books in Comics Sci-Fi" panel, hosted by Publishers Weekly's Calvin Reid, Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL), Paul Pope (Battling Boy, One Trick Rip Off), and Faith Erin Hicks (Friends With Boys, The Last of Us) drew quite a crowd, many of whom have been obsessively following these creators for years,[...]

I was excited now, because I had actually read the book within the last year and I had related to story of a student who was different and his struggles to find his place. Paul Pope Paul was at SDCC to promote his upcoming release of Battling Boy, in stores October 8, 2013 Battling Boy targets the[...]