Brubaker and Phillips ask: What happens to the villains who manage to get away? What happens when they grow old and leave the Wild West? Set against the backdrop of the economic hardships and general unrest of the late 1930s, Pulp is a meta-crime drama fit for modern times. With Pulp, set for release on July 29 via Image Comics, writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips dug into a relatively unexplored aspect of those old westerns. Browse through the cheaply printed pages and you might find a mysterious stranger riding into a forgotten, broken-down town, only to rescue its inhabitants from any number of thieves, murderers, and bandits. But for a long time, if you were reading pulps, it typically meant you were reading stories of heroism and villainy in the Old West. Pulp magazines, popular around the turn of the 20th century through the 1950s, ran the gamut from gory horror to romance to superhero tales and back again.

“Pulp” is the latest original graphic novel from the “Criminal” creative pair, following “My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies” and “Bad Weekend.” It will be released in hardcover in comics shops on May 20, and in bookstores on May 26.Before there were comic books there were pulps. Hopefully I don’t have to draw too many horses. Phillips added, “I asked Ed to write me a Western and this is as close as he could get. I thought about all these writers telling fictionalized versions of the vanishing days of the Wild West, as their own world was going through one of its darkest hours… And suddenly I realized I had the makings of a really great pulp story, but one set in the real world. Set for release in May, the book takes place during the 1930s and follows Max Winters, a pulp magazine writer specializing in westerns who finds himself hunted by “bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past.”īrubaker said in the press release, “When Sean and I decided to do something completely new for our next original graphic novel, he planted the idea of a Western in my head… And I found myself drawn to the era where that genre first hit big-the pulp magazines and the Great Depression. Image Comics have announced “Pulp,” a new graphic novel by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips.

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