


Brubaker and Phillips with amazing spot reds from colorist Jacob Phillips blur fact and fiction and show and steadily build up that Winters’ character, the Red River Kid, is a barely fictionalized version of his younger self. Set in New York in 1939 with occasional flashbacks to the turn of the 20th century, Pulp chronicles the last days of Max Winters, an Old West gun fighter and outlaw turned writer of pulp Westerns for the fictional magazine Six Gun Western. And their new Image Comics graphic novella, Pulp, is no exception. Thanks to their work on titles like Criminal, The Fade Out, Kill or Be Killed, and many others, writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Philips’ collaborations have been some of my favorite comics to seek out on the stands. But you can take what you can get ’cause there ain’t no glory in the west.” -from “No Glory in the West” by Orville Peck

I couldn't sleep because I would always be out in that water, as the waves got bigger and bigger around me."īrubaker then discussed how Pulp tied into this harrowing experience: " Pulp was the first story I wrote after that day, and there's a clear strand of the story that comes from that day in the sea, where I can see myself trying to process the fear I felt." It was a harrowing day, and for a long time afterwards, every time I closed my eyes I was still in that water, waving for help, struggling to get out. "I got to a point where I was pretty sure I would never make it out of the water, and my wife was on the beach watching, on the phone with 911.

"I was very lucky that a brave young man leapt into the riptide to save me and we managed to get back to shore with a lot of effort," he continued. RELATED: Friday: Brubaker & Martin on Blending Occult, Noir for New Webcomic
