Saturday, June 29, 2013

BREAKING BAD NEWS!

Hello readers, it's with regret that I write Pulp's Art will change in the weeks ahead and will eventually close its doors permanently.

I think we gave it a good go but in the final analysis there isn't sufficient support to warrant the use of resources this book shop requires, so I'll be leaving towards the end of July and I imagine shortly after that the focus of the shop will be changing.

I'm grateful to have had this opportunity in retailing and pleased that in our two and a bit years of being open Pulp's Art has sold some beautiful books to some nice people. Thanks to all of you who bought a book here or said something complimentary about the store, your patronage was greatly appreciated by me.


Pulp's Comics will continue to make the best in artist's sketchbooks and self published art books available ; before closing Pulp's Art will be discounting most of the stock in the shop, offering some really great bargains on some very good books, so come on in to hear the Fat Lady singing!

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

NEW AT PULP'S ART JUNE 26

Hello readers, so what's arrived this week, well Art of World War Z didn't! Yeah our supplier's minions confused it with War Machine, I could make some pun about zombies getting the last word or moan but in fairness they generally do a terrific job so I'll forgo the cheap laugh.

Anyway check this out,



JOHN BYRNE'S FANTASTIC FOUR AE ED
HC 168pp Black + White
IDW
OK, we know what to expect from an Artist's Edition by now, a facsimile of the original page true in every detail, scanned from the original and reprinted at the same size.
John Byrne is a fan favorite and reprinted here is what he did between X-Men and Next Men, why it's his run on Marvel's first family the Fantastic Four.
This book reprints #s 232, 241, 243, 247, 261 and What If # 36, you also get bonus original art, character studies and covers.
Sure to be a popular book so call in or contact us to ensure your copy!

SUMMER WARS MATERIAL BOOK
SC 208pp Color Black + White
Udon Entertainment
Most of what you want to know about this award winning film, from Mad House studios, can be found in this book.
An ordinary family is put to the test to avert a catastrophe in cyber space, you get all the visual development art for characters and settings for this story and an in depth interview with the director in this nicely produced book.

Finally two exhibitions are about to debut here in Paris that are sure to thrill fans of illustration, Galerie Arludick will be presenting a selection of work from Imaganism Studio's incredibly talented Boby Chiu and Kei Acedera, while at Galerie Daniel Maghen an amazing roster of artists will be paying homage to their favorite movies.

NEW PRICING ON KIM JUNG GI'S SKETCHBOOKS!

Hello readers, I've been vexed for some time about the pricing of Kim's books and had discussed with our supplier, Kim's European agent, the whole issue.

Well finally we have an understanding, in fairness to Kim's agent, Kim is setting the prices with little regard for the needs of a bricks and mortar book store, or international freight costs.
What this means is our in store price has come down to reflect the agent's obligation to respect Kim's demands.

So, it's not so good for us given our original pricing was the standard margin a French book store would make selling books from a domestic supplier but then these are unique books from a unique talent so it's great news for you, the consumer!

Now, I know there's a new book from Kim and yes this will be available from Pulp's Art in the near future, watch this space!

Thursday, June 20, 2013

MAN OF STEEL!

Hello readers, Warner and DC have a lot riding on the latest adaptation of Superman's origins and happily initial reports would suggest they've conjured up a winner, courtesy of the fan's dream director/producer team of Zack -300- Snyder and Christopher -Dark Knight- Nolan.

This great looking book, showcases the amazing production design for this lavish production, which synthesized the Superhero and SF mediums into an epic spectacle.



MAN OF STEEL: DANS L'UNIVERSE LEGENDAIRE DE SUPERMAN
HC 192pp Color
Huginn Muninn
Take the journey with Kal-El from doomed Krypton to Smallville and onto Metropolis, where you'll encounter the maniacal General Zod and his insurgents via this fabulous looking book!

(This time the money is up on the screen and not in Brando's bank account!)

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

NEW AT PULP'S ART JUNE 19

Hello readers, well Star Trek Into Darkness proved to be cracking entertainment, one hopes that the whit, energy and entertainment JJ Abrams and his team brought to this grand daddy of SF franchises can last through to their endeavours to rejuvenate Star Wars.

And so to this week's new books and it was only a couple of week's back we announced a great looking new art book for a terrific new game and yet here's another,


ART OF THE LAST OF US
HC 184pp Color Black + White
Dark Horse
The new game from the mischievous mutts at Naughty Dog studio sees a pandemic having broken out across the globe and it's turning people into decidedly unmagical mushrooms, terrifying fanged fungi mutants in fact. You'll play this game as a couple - comprising of a middle aged man, Joel and a young women, Ellie - needing to traverse an even more ravaged and paranoid USA than normal in the hope of locating sanctuary.
Dark Horse have already brought you gorgeous game art books for Mass Effect, Remember Me, Bioshock and Dragon Age and this book is right up there with the best of them for its quality of images and design, which combines aspects of The Road, Mad Max and Resident Evil, from what will clearly be a terrifying and compelling gaming experience.

OK we stick with a ravaged and plagued world with,



WALKING DEAD POSTER COLLECTION
HC 40pp Color
Insight Editions
40 large poster sized pages can easily be taken from this book and placed where ever you need an image to scare the dickens out of your self and fellow Zombie/Walker fans.
All the principal characters are featured from the first 3 series of the hit TV show, based upon the top selling comic book series, Walking Dead and there are some promo posters to round out the package.

(NB. We have a similar collection for the excellent Game of Thrones series.)

Last but no means the least of the arrivals is the latest collection of,


FLASH GORDON THE FALL OF MING
HC 200pp Color
Titan Books
The latest in the to be comprehensive reprinting of Alex Raymond's SF masterpiece covers the years 1941-44, when these classic stories must have served as a welcome distraction from the suffering of WWII.
Flash, Dale and Doctor Zhivago - wasn't it - are still stuck on the planet Mongo, where Emperor Ming is still being merciless!

Finally the fear of the leak we experienced a few weeks back is gone and we're returning books to those shelves but in a departure from before, we're having two new sections, our copublished Trinquétte books and a selection of bargin books, the latter being great books but now at great prices.

Tune in next week, when I hope to announce the arrival of John Byrne's Fantastic Four Artist's Edition!





Friday, June 14, 2013

PA + PD = IMPORTS - 10%

Ha ha, have I turned Greek? Well time will tell, true I don't care much for the IMF, ECB and the EC but no for the moment readers this simple equation is just about tomorrow's promotion here at Pulp's Art.

So, as well as deep discounting lots of cool books, including these below, we'll also be cutting 10% off all imports, books and prints. So any book not published by a French company is going down but just for a count of one day, tomorrow the 15th June, by Tuesday all will return to what we call normal here.

Oh and do remember we close at 19,00, 7 P.M. tomorrow evening but so you don't loose shopping time, I'll close for lunch just between 13,00 and 13,30.

So here are the last of the teasers,



HUMBERTO RAMOS ART'N'OUT SABOTAGE yours for 20€!


GUILLEM MARCH COVER GIRLS just 15€!


MY DAILY ZOO, CHRIS AYER'S kid friendly have a go book just 5€!


All 3 of RYAN BENJAMIN'S brilliant PANCRATIA just 18€ each!

BUT REMEMBER THESE OFFERS ARE JUST AVAILABLE TOMORROW, SATURDAY 15, A.K.A. PULP'S DAY!

Thursday, June 13, 2013

TODAY'S PD ANNOUNCEMENT

Hello readers, here's another batch of books you will find here on Saturday deep discounted but remember these prices only apply on PD Saturday June 15th.

ASFA PRESENTS 108 DRAWINGS just 20€

How about this beauty,


ART of CRAIG ELLIOTT, also less 10€ for just 20€


or what about MAD ARCHIVES # 4 for just 35€.

Tune into this blogspot tomorrow afternoon for a big announcement about Pulp's Day, Saturday 15th.

OK enjoy the rain and hope it doesn't come through our roof again!

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

NEW AT PULP'S ART JUNE 12

Hi readers, new this week at the boutique for beau books here in the City of Lights, are the following.

The essence of great comedy is - pause for effect - timing and look what we have now, a few week's after the artist has left Paris!



ASHLEY WOOD MACHINE SABBATH
HC 48pp Color
IDW
The work of Ashley is always dynamic but here you get Ash with a dash 
of "action art", that or he simply got carried away depicting the numerous nubile nymphs in these paintings and sketches, from his first fine-art gallery show at the Jonathen Levine gallery in NYC.
It both is and isn't the Ashley art we know, it's his stuff OK but unrestrained by any direct commercial or client related constraints.

Now to something all about commercial concerns and yet likely to be of significant artistic merit and a lot of fun, it's


ART OF MONSTER UNIVERSITY
HC 167pp Color Black + White
Chonicle Books
The latest film from Pixar, yes that animation studio with 24 Academy awards, whose films have made a staggering $5 billion, reintroduces Mark and Sully in a welcome return to the world of Monsters, of all shape and stripe.
This art book gives you all you would want and expect from an "Art of ..", color guides, character studies, storyboards and a raft load of development art.

If you like animation art then you'll want to know that we have a few of Oscar Martin's Tom & Jerry sketchbooks, a very nicely self produced book by the Spanish artist of research work he made featuring these popular characters.

Our last book is a welcome addition to the popular books by Ben Caldwell,


DARE DETECTIVE MISFITS' MANUEL
48pp Color Black + White
Ben Caldwell
I know anyone who has bought one of Ben's books has come back happy and usually for more, so it's good we now have this new book from him. The DD Misfits' Manuel is a heavily illustrated color guide to all the stupendously rich back ground material for Ben's Dare Detective story and its setting of Ebrinor.
Prepare to be sucked into the hyper active imagination of an excellent artist and the zany yet credible world he's created! 

Before I go and monkey around a bit more here in the store, yes we're still waiting on getting the roof and various pipes fixed, so I have to put stuff here and there so it doesn't sit out of sight in the office, let me tell you we have had these great books come back into stock,




Tune into this blog spot each day for further details about discounted titles for Pulp's Day (PD) and be sure to get back here Friday afternoon when I'll be making an important announcement about PD.



CHANGED OPENING HOURS HERE FOR PULP'S DAY!

Hello readers, today's announcement for PD includes this important piece of information:

PULP'S ART will open on Saturday 15th at 10,30 and close at 13,00 as normal, it will reopen at 13,30 and close at 19,00.
OK?  So, simply put were closing at 7 P.M. on the evening of Saturday 15th but you wont loose any shopping time because I'm grabbing just 30 minutes for lunch!

And now to what you've been waiting for, the discounted titles,


PROMETHEUS ART OF THE FILM 25€!

THE PEPPER PROJECT 22€

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

PULP'S DAY!

Hello readers we have this week's new books and I'm still sorting them out, so stay tuned to this channel.
Meanwhile here are a few more of those books we'll be deep discounting for PULP'S DAY this coming Satureday, June 15th!

Whoa, Art of Kung Fu Panda 2 for 26€, that's less 35%!

The Tolkien Years of the Brothers Hildebrandt less 40% at 18€!

And keep in mind our commercial cousins Pulp's Comics and Pulp's Toys are also dropping prices on a wide range of goodies for PULP'S DAYso do come to rue Dante this Saturday to benefit.

Saturday, June 8, 2013

YAY FOR PULP'S DAY

Hi everybody, so next Saturday being the 15th will also be PULP'S DAY, when across all three stores we'll be slashing prices on assorted goodies.

So because we'll be closed here at Pulp's Art after today till Tuesday, I'm recommending three items which will be reduced next Saturday.


If you'd like a treasure trove of images featuring "ol' web head" from Ditko through to McFarlane and beyond then this is the book for you and it will only set you back 25€!

Then how about a cool sketch book from the "daddy" of comic cover artists, he drinks, he draws and does both with consummate skill, it's


48 Pages of great drawing in a limited edition hard cover and yours for just 15€!

Film buffs will find plenty to like about "PULP'S DAY", for instance Timmy Burton's Dark Shadow Visual Companion will be available while stocks last for just 19€,



To find out what the other store's are up to simply visit their blog spots.



Friday, June 7, 2013

ABOUT PULP'S DAY &..

Hi readers, so as I wrote yesterday we will be having a special event across the Pulp's stores on Saturday 15th. 
At Pulp's Comics they will be slashing the prices on selected back issues and graphic novels, at Pulp's Toys they'll be doing the same on toys and collectibles and we'll be discounting lots of items here at Pulp's Art.

It's an opportunity you wont want to miss and to maintain every one's focus, both ourselves and Pulp's Comics will be posting on our blogs some of the selected items on work days leading up to PULP'S DAY!

Today's featured item is,




Francisco Herrera's Magic Box yours for 20€ assuming you come along on to the store on Saturday 15th.

Finally please note that we are selling these great books right now,




ENKI BILAL MECANHUMANIMAL
HC 96pp Color
Casterman
An art book in which Mr Bilal revisits certain of his iconic creations, using mixed techniques and occasional photographic imagery, a gorgeous looking book by one of the mediums titans.


TEMUDJIN
HC 103pp Color
DM Editions
Gallery owner Daniel Maghen is passionate about BD, so much so that he occasionally publishes them. His latest release is the tale of a special boy born on the unforgiving steppes of central Asia some centuries ago.
The boy has amazing powers and is guided in the use of his gifts by a willy shamanic guardian.
Carrion employs a simple but stunningly effective style both in composition and coloring to illustrate the intriguing tale by Ozanam.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

NEW AT PULP'S ART JUNE 6

Hi readers, something for all tastes again this week and we kick off with a real treat, not one but two new issues of, Illustrators Quarterly,







ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY
SC 94pp Color Black + White
Book Palace
This British response to the excellent American publication, Illustration is every bit as good as it's cousin across the "pond".
Each issue focuses attention on top notch illustrators from back when magazines and books contained gorgeous illustration, with informative essays and generous helping of the artist's work.
In these two new issues, we have a classy piece on David Wright's toffee nosed totty in issue # 2 while # 3 pays it's respects to the master of historical illustration, Fortunino Matania.
These are just the high lights, there are many more worthy artists and features to be discovered in each issue of this highly recommended title.

I'm pleased to say the principal artist from this next book dropped by the store recently and picked up a few titles,


ART OF REMEMBER ME
HC 184pp Color Black + White
Dark Horse
Sounding like a Christopher Nolan film the premise of Remember Me is that of a memory hunter and trader who has had her own memory swiped, so she's got as much idea about her past as a serial spliff smoker but this isn't a film it's Capcom's new game.
So, the setting is Neo Paris in the year 2084, dangers, human and high tech lerk around every corner and the game is certain to be a rush, though of course what you want to know is that this book is brimming with interesting art work covering every aspect of the game and rendered by a team led by ace artist Aleksi Briclot.
This is from the publisher which brought you the amazing Art of Mass Effect and more recently Bioshock, so you know you wont be wasting your time or money with Dark Horse and Aleksi Briclot involved; now have I forgotten to mention anything?

We stay on the back of Dark Horse and continue riding round Paris with our next book,


VICTORIA FRANCES: LISTY CIRCUS
HC 80pp Color
Dark Horse
Whoa that's a chap on the cover, name of Shasha, anyway he's had a run of bad luck leading right up to the clown costume and the circus but will his luck change when he meets an equally saucer eyed sorceress?
You'll have to buy this book written and illustrated by one of Gothdom's favorite creators, Victoria Frances. 

Finally our last title this week lowers the tone to a point where I feel I should warn our high brow readers to disengage with this review right now because here comes,


JOHN K PRESENTS: SPUMCO COMIC BOOK
HC 160pp Color Black + White
IDW
Back in the 1990s a "touched" genius and a team of talented animators created " The Ren & Stimpey Show" for Nicelodeon and television animation was never quite the same again. That genius was John Kircfalusi, the show was as wacky and out there as was John himself and eventually - as things got stranger and weirder - Nicelodeon and John parted ways.
Still, what John did next was this, a series of comic books every bit as noxiously hilarious as Ren & Stimpey and now collected into one book by IDW and with additional material.
For those who find the functioning and malfunctioning of the body funny, this is the book for you as things which should have been scooped and bagged or flushed feature strongly along with a cast including the slack jawed idiot, Jimmy and his half pint red neck uncle, George.
The stories aren't always savory and they're certainly not subtle but John with pals like Shane Glines, Jim Smith and Rich Pursel sure did funny stuff and in a rich visual style recalling the animated shows of the 50s and early 60s.
Now wash your hands!



SATURDAY JUNE 15 WILL BE PULP'S DAY!

"Pulp's Day, what's that Nick?" Well, across the three Pulp's stores, count 'em, Art, Comics and Toys we'll be deep discounting selected items and not just slow stuff or books caught in last week's deluge, oh no top sellers in prime condition are making the list.
Between now and the 15th all the store's blog spots will be teasing you with items and their price, this is an unrepeatable offer, these items at these prices will be available in the store while stock lasts on the 15th and only on the 15th so please mark the calender now!

To give you an idea of what to expect how do you like the sound of J Scott Campbell's White Hot and Marvelous at 15€ each, that's like 50% off!






Here's what pulpscomicsblogspot.com had to say about the 15th, "Cette année, il va falloir réserver votre journée du 15 juin, car vous ne voudrez pas manquer la première édition de la journée Pulp's. En effet à cette occasion vous pourrez découvrir des remises exceptionnelles sur des centaines d'articles. Pour vous faire patienter jusque là nous avons décidé d'annoncer les promotions  au jour le jour jusqu'à la date fatidique."

So I hope to see you on the 15th, I believe everybody will go home very happy.

Stay tuned for this week's new arrivals, I'll be posting them soon!