![]() ![]() Pope eventually developed the manga Supertrouble for Kodansha, which mined the "cutie-pie" girl adventure vein that THB exists in. Pope introduced THB in 1995, the same year he began work for Kodansha, Japan's manga publisher. He describes his influences as Daniel Torres, Bruno Premiani, Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, Tony Salmons, Hugo Pratt, Silvio Cadelo, Vittorio Giardino, and Hergé. He has self-published some of his work, most notably THB, through his own Horse Press, with other work for such publishers as DC Comics/ Vertigo and First Second Books.īorn in Philadelphia, Pope grew up in Bowling Green, Ohio, with stops in Columbus, Ohio, San Francisco, and Toronto in between. Pope's two protagonist types are the silent, lanky outsider male of One-Trick Ripoff, Escapo and Heavy Liquid or the resourceful, aggressive, humorous young teenage girls of THB. Pope's work combines the precision and romance of European comics artists with the energy and page design of the manga tradition. ![]() Paul Pope (born September 25, 1970, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American alternative cartoonist. ![]()
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