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Battling Boy. Battling Boy is a graphic novel by an American artist-writer Paul Pope, published on October 8, 2013, by First Second Books. [1] It was followed by two other volumes: The Rise of Aurora West and The Fall of the House of West . Battling Boy earned a 2014 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens .
Action scenes are intense and well plotted, as when Battling Boy must jump from rooftop to rooftop in an effort to avoid a giant car-crushing monster. Although short on exposition, the story is well balanced with tongue-in-cheek humor and epic battles, but heartfelt sincerity and humility when the dust settles.
Battling Boy, a bright and action-packed comic by Paul Pope, unveils a post-apocolyptic experience for a young boy forced into the role of a hero. The reader is immediately dropped into a strangely familiar scene of the distressed city of Arcopolis, dressed in monsters and fairy-tale antagonists alike.
"The adventure of the year." -- Jeff SmithIt's one kid versus an entire world of monsters.The monsters don't stand a chance.The long-awaited graphic novel BA...
I'm very excited to be able to launch the trailer for graphic novelist Paul Pope's new book Battling Boy, a major release from FirstSecond that hits shelves ...
Battling Boy is a paean to the world-building powers and reckless energy of cartooning. Dynamic, brash, stuffed with surprises, yet also knowingly crafted, tightly braided, even subtle, it is Pope’s best balancing act yet between the joys of rampant mark-making and the responsibilities of story.
His latest book, Battling Boy, debuted at #1 on the New York Times best-seller list, his third book to hit the NYT Top 10. He is currently working on Battling Boy 2 , the second book in the epic science fiction/fantasy series for First Second/MacMillan, featuring a young superhero, and also finishing Psychenaut , a book of visual essays about Jungian dream analysis, for Dargaud Editions.
