You might be wondering what the ruckus raised by the release of the Access Hollywood Trump video has to do with comics. As it happens, quite a lot. You see, if you take the partisan politics out of it, if you don’t talk about what Democrats or Republicans think, the Trump video and the response to…
Graphic artist Paul Pope’s Battling Boy has been optioned by Paramount Pictures for a feature film. The movie will be produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B production company according to Variety. The book, to be published by First Second in spring 2010, is a “gritty tale centers on the son of a god or superhero…
Over at the L.A. Times’ geek culture blog Hero Complex, T.J. Kosinski talks to celebrated creator Paul Pope (Batman: Year 100, 100%) about the upcoming re-release of his fan-favorite series THB, as well as what he sees as the "new canvases for comics." According to Pope, the upcoming reprint of THB (due out in 2009)…
Paul Pope is in the midst of making a new comic about a kid who has to fight his way through "Monstropolis," and he’s been kind enough to post a quick preview on the blog of publisher First Second, which is putting out the book. There are two black and white preview pages — one…
