BATTLING BOY (Paul Pope)

[Fred_le_Mallrat]

on peut essayer

[n.n.nemo]

Grand sourire

[Old_Tiger]

Enfin !!
« Battling Boy », les enfants seront ravis de l’apprendre. Idem pour moi avec « THB ».

[Benoit1 (Benoît)]

Paul Pope Shoot Interview: Batman 100, THB, Battling Boy, Escapo, Heavy Liquid, making manga

Rétrospective sur le travail de Paul Pope, notamment sur son aventure éditoriale japonaise avec l’éditeur Kodansha, son cursus en école d’arts, les découvertes et influences qui ont jalonné son parcours, les outils qu’il utilise, etc…

Pas de date annoncée pour les prochaines sorties de Battling boy volume 2 et THB (ça viendra de l’éditeur) mais l’anthologie ressortira a priori en trois volumes dans un format plus large que celui de la parution originale.

[Benoit1 (Benoît)]

An interview with Paul Pope: 'You can be your own audience' - The Comics Journal

@Paul Pope

There’s a strange history with two of my major works, THB and Battling Boy. I took them over to First Second, which is the graphic novel branch of Macmillan. We’ve finally decided to put THB in the pipeline, which is at their new adult imprint, 23rd Street Books. It’s a lot of material — over 1,000 pages. At the moment, we have four books already in production, and after that, a projected fifth one that wraps everything up into one complete storyline.

After finishing PulpHope2, I spent about three months going through all of THB. Luckily, I have all of the pages, so I collated everything and made sure everything was in order and nothing was out of place. It holds up. I’m not quite sure when they’re going to announce the final on-shelf date, but we’re launching it late 2025. Battling Boy 2 is also in the pipeline, so it’s quite possible that we’re going to be seeing both of these series launching around the same time or within the same year or two. It’s been a long time putting this thing together.

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At the time, I had pretty young nephews who liked comic books but didn’t really have access to them. I asked myself what I could do for twelve-year-old readers that would be cool and not too adult in the way that adults deal with psychological issues or violence. That’s kind of where Battling Boy came from. It got picked up by Brad Pitt’s company Plan B at Paramount pretty early on, so I unfortunately got derailed from working on the second book because I was also working on the film for years — working on multiple drafts of scripts, making concept art for the film, etc. Then it went to Netflix for a while after Paramount dropped it. Plan B had it for eight years, then I think I worked on it at Netflix for two and a half years.

The film thing is the brass ring for anybody in comics. If you’re lucky enough to be Frank Miller or Mike Mignola, you’ll get something made, but it’s very difficult and time-consuming. So returning to the roots is the new goal. To finish the second Battling Boy which ties up the first major storyline. Nobody would get into a project like this thinking, “Oh, I’ll do this for ten years and it’ll be fraught with ups and downs, but eventually it’ll be great.” It’s just something that happens and you either give up or don’t.

What does Denzel Washington say? “Learn, earn, and return.” I like that. It resonates. You jump into something with all kinds of ideas, that hatful of ambition, that handful of hopes. Then you do things. You get established at some point, you get distracted or derailed, you get back on track, and then it’s like, “Now what? Well, I’ve got to finish what I started.” So that’s kind of where I find myself at this stage.

[Benoit1 (Benoît)]

Nuff said.

@Patrick Zircher

Don’t think any single artist captures so much of what I love about comics, from the ‹ hip › underground, to skillful drawing, to the Kirby vibe, as much as Paul Pope.
Somehow it’s ALL there.

Except maybe Barks/Schulz/Kelly cartooning but you can’t go Every direction simultaneously.
Pope nearly does.