It isn’t the dilapidated housing projects, or the slow rise of Nazi sympathisers in America. The story here isn’t the gruff New York City of 1939. In a New York City that looks down on its seniors as it looks to build to the future, a future that includes a second world war just around the corner.īrubaker weaves the tapestry of the world and builds its layers without ever getting distracted by pulling on any one of those threads. Set in 1939 New York, Pulp tells the story of Max, an aged freelance comic book writer trying to make ends meet in a post Great Depression world. And when you have an artist like Sean Phillips, everything is going to be beautiful.Įd Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Pulp is just that. The distances your story can go truly depends on the writer’s imagination and the artist’s ability translate that onto a page.īut when you have a writer like multiple Eisner Award winner Ed Brubaker, you don’t need the fantastical. In comic books, alien worlds and flying men, ghosts, and ghouls, and demons, don’t cost extra. To lean on all the freedoms that a pen and paper affords both the writer and the artist. In comics, there is a tendency to do the fantastical. There is something about telling a simple story well. Advertisement Pulp (Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips)
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