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Originally published: London: Titan, 2009.
Info autore
PAUL POPE (b.1970) is an American artist/designer living and working in New York City. He has been working primarily in comics and screenprinting since the early '90s, but has also done a number of projects with Italian fashion label Diesel Industries and, in the US, with DKNY. HIs recent collaboration with Errolson Hugh/Acronym for Nike’s AF1 debuted spring 2017. His media clients include LucasArts, NBC, Disney, Cartoon Network, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Conde-Naste, Kodansha (Japan), Sapporo (Japan), Dargaud Editions (France), EMI Canada, The Grateful Dead Estate, and The British Film Institute. His iconic
Batman: Year 100, a science fiction take on the classic Batman origin tale, appears frequently on many Top 10 Batman story lists. In 2010 Pope was recognized as a Master Artist by the American Council Of The Arts. His short science fiction comic strip Strange Adventures (DC Comics)--an homage to the Flash Gordon serials of the '30s-- won the coveted National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award for Best Comic Book of the year. He has won 5 Eisners to date. His latest book,
Battling Boy, debuted at #1 on the New York Times best-seller list, his third book to hit the NYT Top 10.
He is currently working on
Battling Boy 2, the second book in the epic science fiction/fantasy series for First Second/MacMillan, featuring a young superhero, and also finishing
Psychenaut, a book of visual essays about Jungian dream analysis, for Dargaud Editions.
Riassunto
Following the 20th anniversary edition of PAUL
POPE's HEAVY LIQUID, IMAGE is proud to release POPE's
follow-up, 100%, in a newly remastered edition collecting all 5 issues, a
wraparound cover gallery, unseen art and sketches, and stunning cover art
colored by YUKO SHIMIZU. Time Magazine listed both HEAVY
LIQUID and 100% among their 100 most important science fiction
graphic novels of the decade, and fans and critics alike regard 100% as
some of POPE's most emotionally charged and literary work, akin to Los
Bros. Hernandez's Love and Rockets and the films of Wong
Kar-wai.
Set in HEAVY LIQUID's
alternate future New York and the same timeline as hit series Batman Year
100, 100% focuses on the intertwining struggles, hopes, and loves of
six characters all working and frequenting the seedy Catshack strip club.
Blending the worlds of sex work, MMA fighting, and urban menace, 100%
asks-is it possible to find love, safety, and hope in this dystopian American
megalopolis?
Collects 100% #1-5
