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BATTLING BOY optioned at Paramount

11/5/08

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Paul Pope’s BATTLING BOY isn’t due until 2010 from First Second, but it already has a coveted movie option from Brad Pitt’s Paramount shingle.

Paramount Pictures has acquired Paul Pope’s upcoming graphic novel “Battling Boy,” with Brad Pitt’s Plan B shingle to produce the adaptation.

Gritty tale centers on the son of a god or superhero who comes down from the top of a mountain at his father’s behest in order to rid a giant city of monsters.


Plan B has also optioned BLACK HOLE and World War Z.

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Emmanuel Guibert and ALAN’S WAR

10/29/08



ALAN’S WAR, the US edition of an award-winning French graphic novel by Emmanuel Guibert, is one of the best-reviewed books of the year. Here’s a video of Guibert’s drawing techniques.

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Things to look out for: STUFFED! by Bertozzi and Eichler

09/17/08

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Over on his blog, award-winning cartoonist Nick Bertozzi teases the new book he’s illustrating for First Second, written by COLBERT REPORT writer Glenn Eichler.

Here are a couple of pages from STUFFED!, the graphic novel I just finished for First Second Books. It was written by Glenn Eichler of The Colbert Report renown and drawn by me with coloring-help from Chris Sinderson. It’s about a certain kind of sexual practice racism. To be published in late 2009.

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