2008: Popgun vol. 1 — Harvey Award for Best Anthology
Image presents a groundbreaking trip into the inspired minds and talents of the industry's top writers and artists. From giant monsters to burning satire to period piece epics and everything in between, PopGun crosses the protected borders of every genre, fulfilling the desires of all hungry for the pungent taste of creativity. Deviating from the tired mold of abstract anthologies, PopGun places entertainment on the front lines, reinforced with unique storytelling and an incredible array of art.
Featuring the work an all-star line-up that includes MIKE ALLRED, ERIK LARSEN, JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER, JIM MAHFOOD and more, POPGUN acts as the ultimate graphic mixtape by combining big name creators doing work fans never expected and an array of the industry's rising stars. The anthology crosses the protected borders of every genre, fulfilling the desires of anyone hungry for the pungent taste of creativity.
MIKE ALLRED, CHUCK BB, MIKE BULLOCK, BENITO CERENO, DAVE CROSLAND, TOBY CYPRESS, BRANDON GRAHAM, SHEPHERD HENDRIX, JONATHAN HICKMAN, EVA HOPKINS, JOE KEATINGE, ERIK LARSEN, JASON LATOUR, COREY LEWIS, JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER, JIM MAHFOOD, DEREK McCULLOCH, CHRIS MORENO, MORITAT, KHARY RANDOLPH, RICK REMENDER, JAMIE S. RICH, MARK SABLE, TIM SEELEY, M. ZACHARY SHERMAN, MARK ANDREW SMITH, RICHARD STARKINGS, JAMES STOKOE, NICK STAKAL, DOUG WAGNER and more!
- Series: Popgun
- Paperback: 450 pages
- Publisher: Image Comics; 1St Edition edition (December 11, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1582408246
- ISBN-13: 978-1582408248
- Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.9 x 10.1 inches
Anthology fans will find a lot more variety and accessibility in Image's mammoth "mix-tape" Popgun Volume One, which reads like a 450-page answer to Villard's lovely Flight collections. The contents run from extended stories like Derek Hunter's 15-page Powerpuff Girls-esque goofy-girl-hero comic Gamma Rae to one-page posters and smirking faux-ads like Danny Hellman's sly, smirking ant-farm solicitation. While there are some kid-friendly stories, the tone runs generally darker, with ninja battles, noir murder mysteries, ghosts, vampires, monsters, zombies, and robot-on-robot violence cropping up amid the odd, alternative superheroes. Virtually all the work is colorful, entertaining, and immediate, with a strong sense of experimentation and play throughout; it's hard, in this rich an environment, for any one work to stand out. But Andy Kuhn's "Mexican Wrestler Funnies," in which two wrestlers trade Monty Python-esque barbs like "It is I who will make love to your corpse, with a Waring blender… set to puree!" is pretty hilarious, and Adrian Dominguez and Matthew Weldon's anime-influenced teen-hero story "Ellie Saves The World" is particularly gorgeous. But then, the wide variety of tones and visual styles guarantees something for just about everyone… A- --The Onion AV Club
The sheer diversity in style of art, lettering, layout -- everything -- is enough to keep neophytes and nerds alike rapt. The work is at turns touching, hilarious, suspenseful and then some. This is a fine collection. 9/10 --Under the Radar Magazine
[POPGUN is] a comic book mixtape that will keep the art junkies very happy ... acrazy collection of cutting edge comic book art. POPGUN pulls selections from some of the top indie artists in comics ... Aspiring artists and fans will want to flip through POPGUN for the inspiring images that demonstrate just how much talent is floating around comics these days. --Blair Butler, G4's Attack of the Show
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