Pulp started because Sean asked me to think of an idea for a western because he wanted to draw one, and while I was trying to figure it out, I started thinking: "What happens if you don't go out in a blaze of glory when you're young?" And suddenly I had this idea for a story about an old ex-outlaw writing pulp stories and living in 1930s New York during the Depression.
Oh, for sure, but it came kind of organically in the process, too. I'm wondering if the current state of America had any role in your choice. This story takes place in a very interesting time in America. Recently, Brubaker spoke with SYFY WIRE about Pulp, what inspired his most recent indie work, and how history tends to repeat itself.
Max must confront his past along with the likes of bank robbers and Nazi spies. The original graphic novel follows Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, who “finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word - tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun,” according to a release from Image. 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.
Before there were comic books there were pulps.
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