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Z2 Comics (formerly Zip Comics and publisher of Harvey Pekar's Cleveland) is cranking into high gear this Spring with the release of two new graphic novels: both Paul Pope's Escapo and Dean Haspiel's Fear My Dear: A Billy Dogma Experience Escapo is coming in April and is currently in Previews, and is based on the[...]

Until the 9th February Tuesday Paul Pope will be in conversation with Comica Co-Director Paul Gravett with support from First Second/Macmillan, Melia Publishing Services & Foyles, at Foyles Gallery, Charing Cross Road. 6.15 for 6.30pm start, ends 8.30pm £6 from WeGotTickets. Wednesday Steven Mooney to sign Half Past Danger at Forbidden Planet with its exclusive bookplate. Stephen Mooney will be signing[...]

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[...]

This time Dean Haspiel is bringing along the artist for the issue #2 variants, Paul Pope (100 Percent, Batman Year 100, Heavy Liquid) and Michael Cavallaro (Parade w/ Fireworks, Cartoon Network Action Pack, Toy Story) whose SHIELD back up story is featured in issue #2 Purchase of The Fox #2 is required to take part[...]

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[...]

The first on the 20th at Forbidden Planet NYC, the shop Tiwary has been buying his comics from since he was a kid. The second stop will be on November 23rd at the Miami Book Fair where he will be doing a panel called Making Music With Comics alongside Peter Bagge and Paul Pope. And they did[...]

Read "backwards", the images appear in tissue-paper overlay to create a wordless narrative of poetic intensity. I stopped by the Hic and Hoc table to check out their new release of a Humor title, but also found the first installment in the series and an "unsolved mysteries" book, Unknown Origins & Untimely Ends. I was late to[...]

So I find myself looking around at time for stories and that's when I came across Batman: The Deal. This isn't a DC Comics story, it's a fan-fiction created by Gerardo Preciado and Daniel Bayliss that they posted for free on their blog. The art has an almost Paul Pope feel and the themes feel like something Grant[...]

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[...]

As a young writer, I was pretty excited! The people on stage included Eugene Myers, author of Fair Quantum/Quantum Coin; Brandon Mull, author of the Beyonders series and his newest book Spirit Animals; Claire Legrand, author of The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls and her newest book Year of Shadows; Django Wexler, author of[...]

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,[...]

Escapo was published by Paul Pope back in 1999 I still have my copy But now I'm going to have to buy it all over again. Because Josh Frankel of Zip Comics is publishing it, as part of a relaunch for his company, now Z2 Comics, and bringing us a revised, full colour version of Escapo[...]

DC comics has announced that they are opening up a talent search to have someone draw a page of Harley Quinn #0 along side Amanda Conner, Paul Pope, Bruce Timm and more The new series being written by Jimmy Palmiotti and his new wife Conner begins this November and they are looking for an undiscovered talent[...]

Page twenty of the book was drawn by Paul Pope and was auctioned at ComicLink.com on August 29th and closed after 26 bids for $3,600.00 Pope drew the art on 19" X 24" board and used every inch as the art is full bleed plus it's signed and stamped by the artist It's said very few[...]

Kot will write each issue based on the strengths of the artist, and the series will be colored by Jordie Bellaire (THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS, NOWHERE MEN). UPDATE: And now with the exclusive variant Phantom Variant cover for Zero #1 by Paul Pope, the only retailer-exclusive cover for this book. Zero is the comic from Ales Kot[...]

CBR ran a piece on the Paul Pope/Gene Yang discussion at San Diego Comic Con. Bleeding Cool was at a different discussion so we had some different stories (including a great one about a barber) However what we didn't have was this exchange… Paul Pope: "Batman did pretty well, so I sat down with the head of[...]

But it's not the only Little Nemo revival on the slate. Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream is a new project by Dean Haspiel, Geof Darrow, Paul Pope, Bill Sienkiewicz, Neal Adams, Peter Bagge, Farel Dalrymple, Brandon Graham, Jeremy Bastian, John Cassaday, Jim Rugg, Becky Cloonan, Scott Morse, Camilla d'Errico, David Petersen, J.G Jones, Chrissie Zullo, Mark[...]

Joshua Stone writes for Bleeding Cool: I first discovered Paul Pope's work in late 1999, when I picked up his DC Vertigo miniseries Heavy Liquid I remember being blown away by the drawings and his use of colors When I attended the 2000 SDCC, when comics were still king, I remember wandering around the convention floor[...]

And also getting collected is Paul Pope with this One Trick Rip-Off/Deep Cuts HC S/N ED a a colour edition (by Jamie Grant) version of  One Trick Rip-Off and Deep Cuts with new and rare material from Paul Pope's world trips in the nineties including Supertrouble.   The Amazon.com listing for Marvel's 10th Anniversary edition of[...]

From the backmatter interviews in Image Comics titles, with Paul Pope. What's the best thing a fan has ever said to you? Probably the times you meet someone who said they read your books with their kids That is really meaningful I like meeting people, everyone has something to say. I did, however, just find out that I[...]

And here are the four covers and their artists, : A: Chris Houghton, B: Tom Waga C: Logan Faerber and D: Paul Pope Adventure THB! Oh and here is the solicit for the issue in question. BRAND NEW ARC! PERFECT JUMPING ON POINT FOR NEW READERS! Join Jake the Dog and Finn the Human in the latest[...]

"Stories spotlight a space heist on a ghost ship, a spirit who wants to play synthesizer in a techno band, a ghost-for-hire haunting agency and others dark, twisted tales." The creators are Geoff Johns, Gilbert Hernandez, Phil Jimenez, Joe Kubert, Jeff Lemire, John McCrea, Amy Reeder Hadley, Paul Pope and Neil Kleid with covers by[...]

DC just released a big group of Before Watchmen cover variant art, including covers by Jim Steranko, Jim Lee, David Finch, Steve Rude, Paul Pope, Cliff Chiang, And Tim Bradstreet.           The art says it all on this one DC just released a big group of Before Watchmen cover variant art, including covers by Jim Steranko,[...]

From the Rio Comic Con, we get a look inside Legendary Comics editor Bob Schreck's bag… and thge news that their One Trick Rip Off will have 100 pages of the unseen Paul Pope manga from fifteen years ago, Supertrouble. Blimey Listen to him say it… From the Rio Comic Con, we get a look inside[...]

Big news out of the Legendary Comics panel at San Diego today: Today the Legendary Comics panel at San Diego Comic-Con unveiled that the company will publish two exciting new projects from esteemed artists, Paul Pope and Matt Wagner. Paul Pope's art book, PULPHOPE, will feature more than 200 pages of Pope's career retrospective and includes many[...]

Since Paul Pope is a Kirby fan, and since I'll use any excuse to bring Kirby into these little nightly intros, the first thing that popped into my head when I read this story was the Simon & Kirby Win A Prize cover at right — another rather prominent example of the sometimes jarring juxtaposition[...]

Expect to see work, and a prescence from Mike Mignola, Craig Thompson, Mike and Laura Allred, Paul Pope, Bernie Wrightson, Steve Niles, Greg Rucka, Jill Thompson, Skottie Young, Jim Mahfood, Mike Huddleston, Marc Andreyko, Fabio Moon, Andy Kuhn, Steve Purcell, Doug TenNapel, David Mack, Greg Ruth and more… all without publishers. There's a full liquor license,[...]

Works from from Syd Mead, 123Klan, Paul Pope, Phil Ashcroft, Elph, Simon Page, Nobumasa Takahashi, Rob Swain, Rhys Owens, Jared Nickerson, Alex Varanese and Christopher St Leger displayed across the country in a series of one night parties. Brighton on Wednesday the 1st of December at the OHSO Social, London on the 2nd at Zigfrid Von[...]

It's not just the Adam Strange strip in Wednesday Comics that's been keeping Paul Pope busy He's also been working with Complex, taking material from a photoshoot and redrawing women based on those shots And so we have two young ladies in various poses, one drawn, one not, in a house of mirrors. Some people, unfairly[...]