Farel Dalrymple is an American artist and alternative comics creator. He is best known for his award-winning comics series Pop Gun War.
Career
Originally from Oklahoma "by way of California", Dalrymple is one of the founders of the New York City-based Meathaus Collective. He attended New York's School of Visual Arts as an Illustration major and has been creating comics since 1999.
Upon graduation, Dalrymple self-published Smith's Adventures in the Supermundane and included it in his application for a Xeric Award. He received the grant for his first issue of Pop Gun War and self-published the next four issues. Dark Horse published the collection in 2003. Dalrymple illustrated Omega the Unknown, a 10-issue series written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Marvel in 2007 and 2008. First Second Books published The Wrechies in 2014; and Image Comics published additional volumes of Pop Gun War in 2016 and 2017.
In January 2025, Floating World Comics began publishing Robot Tod, a full-color ongoing series.
Awards
Dalrymple has received several awards, including a Xeric Foundation grant, a 2002 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, and a Russ Manning Award nomination. An excerpt of Omega the Unknown was selected for the anthology Best American Comics 2010.
Bibliography
Early work
- Behold 3D: "Sunship G'Hide-E1" (a, with Curt Fischer and Ray Zone, anthology, Edge, 1996)
- Proverbs & Parables (w/a, among other artists, 144 pages, New Creation, 1998, )
- Supermundane (w/a):
- Smith's Adventures in the Supermundane (one-shot, Cryptic Press, 1999)
- Supermundane #1-30 (irregular webcomic published on Dalrymple's and Meathaus' websites, 2000âÂÂ2005)
- Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings: "Happy Ending" (anthology graphic novel, 96 pages, 2002, )
- Pop Gun War #1-5 (w/a, Cryptic Press (#1) and Absence of Ink (#2-5), 2000âÂÂ2002)
- Reprinted by Dark Horse, as Pop Gun War (tpb, 136 pages, 2003, )
- Reprinted by Image as Pop Gun War: The Gift (tpb, 144 pages, 2016, )
Meathaus Press
- Meathaus (w/a, anthology):
- "Honkey. Like donkey but with an "H"" (in #1, 2000)
- "Rejection" (also the back cover illustration, in #2, 2000)
- "We're all out" (also editor of the issue, in #3, 2000)
- "Ms. Umbrella â part one" (also editor of the issue, in #4, 2001)
- "Ms. Umbrella pt. 2 â grab your elbow skin" (also editor of the issue, in #5, 2001)
- "The Regular" (in #6, 2002)
- "Centillion" (in Love Songs (#7), 2004)
- "i don't like anybody except for people i like" (also editor of the issue, in Headgames (#8), 2006)
- "fotologica" (in S.O.S., anthology graphic novel, 276 pages, Nerdcore, 2008, )
- Beef Apt. #1-2 (w/a, collective sketchbooks â five pages of Dalrymple's drawings in each, 2002âÂÂ2004)
- Go for the Gold #1-4 (w/a, collective sketchbooks, 2004âÂÂ2011)
- Spigot (w/a, convention zine, 2006)
- Grendel: Red, White and Black #4: "Devil's Retribution" (a, with Matt Wagner, anthology, 2002)
- Reprinted in Grendel: Red, White and Black (tpb, 200 pages, 2005, )
- Reprinted in Grendel Omnibus Volume 1: Hunter Rose (tpb, 600 pages, 2012, )
- AutobioGraphix: "The Tree" (a, with Richard Doutt, anthology graphic novel, 104 pages, 2003, )
- 24Seven Volume 1: "Pirhanas" (a, with Jasen Lex, anthology graphic novel, 224 pages, 2006, )
- MySpace Dark Horse Presents (anthology):
- "Moist: Humidity Rising" (a, with Zack Whedon, in #17, 2008) collected in Volume 3 (tpb, 168 pages, 2009, )
- "Em and Gwen in: Magic Spell" (w/a, in #21, 2009) collected in Volume 4 (tpb, 176 pages, 2009, )
- Prophet (w/a, with Brandon Graham and Simon Roy + Giannis Milonogiannis (#45), Extreme Studios, 2012âÂÂ2014) collected in:
- Remission (includes #24, tpb, 136 pages, 2012, )
- Brothers (includes #29, tpb, 172 pages, 2013, )
- Joining (includes #45, tpb, 168 pages, 2015, )
- Island #4-5, 10, 14-15: "Pop Gun War" (w/a, anthology, 2015âÂÂ2017) collected as Pop Gun War: Chain Letter (tpb, 176 pages, 2017, )
- Thought Bubble Anthology #5: "Nancy Boy" (a, with Rick Remender, 2015) collected in Thought Bubble Anthology (tpb, 136 pages, 2016, )
- Proxima Centauri #1-6 (w/a, 2018) collected as Proxima Centauri (tpb, 160 pages, 2019, )
- THE OFTEN WRONG, (tpb, 360 pages, 2019, )
- From Hell's Heart: "Typee" (a, with Herman Melville and John Arcudi, anthology graphic novel, 128 pages, A Wave Blue World, 2019, )
- Caper #1-4 (of 12): "Market Street" (a, with Judd Winick, 2003âÂÂ2004)
- Bizarro World: "Dear Superman" (a, with Dylan Horrocks, anthology graphic novel, 200 pages, 2005, )
- Omega the Unknown vol. 2 #1-10 (a, with Jonathan Lethem, 2007âÂÂ2008) collected as Omega the Unknown (hc, 256 pages, 2008, )
- House of Mystery vol. 2 #22: "Fig and Strawberry" (a, with Matthew Sturges, co-feature, Vertigo, 2010) collected in Volume 5: Under New Management (tpb, 160 pages, 2011, )
- Marvel Knights: Strange Tales II #2: "You Won't Feel a Thing" (w/a, anthology, 2011) collected in Strange Tales II (hc, 144 pages, 2011, ; tpb, 2011, )
- The Unexpected: "The Land" (a, with Joshua Dysart, anthology one-shot, Vertigo, 2011) collected in The Unexpected (tpb, 160 pages, 2013, )
- Fantastic Four #600: "Remember" (a, with Jonathan Hickman, co-feature, 2012) collected in Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Volume 2 (hc, 832 pages, 2014, )
- New Avengers vol. 2 #34 (a, with Brian Michael Bendis, among other artists, 2013) collected in Volume 5: End Times (hc, 112 pages, 2013, ; tpb, 2013, )
- Wolverine and the X-Men vol. 2 #11 (a, with Jason Latour, among other artists, 2014) collected in Volume 2: Death of Wolverine (tpb, 144 pages, 2015, )
Other publishers
- Typewriter #6: "Untitled" (w/a, with David Youngblood, anthology, Popzero, 2004)
- Jenny Finn: Messiah (a, with Mike Mignola and Troy Nixey, one-shot, Boom! Studios, 2005)
- Project: Superior (w/a, AdHouse Books):
- Project: Superior: "Hollis" (anthology graphic novel, 288 pages, 2005, )
- Superior Sampler #2: "The Awesomest Super Guy, Hollis in: Shadowsmen" (2007)
- Pop Gun War: Percevil (w/a, webcomic, Top Shelf 2.0, 2009)
- VICE (w/a, webcomics):
- Blood Sisters (2009)
- Untitled (2011)
- Level 72 (2012)
- Papercutter #14: "Live with Our Clerics" (w/a, anthology, Tugboat Press, 2010)
- It Will All Hurt #1-6 (w/a, webcomic, Study Group Comics, 2012âÂÂ2015)
- Published by Study Group as a three-issue mini-series in printed form.
- Collected by Image as a trade paperback (144 pages, 2018, )
- Delusional: the graphic and sequential work of Farel Dalrymple (w/a 232 pages, AdHouse Books, 2013, )
- The Wrenchies (w/a, graphic novel, 304 pages, First Second, 2014, )
- Includes short story "fotogloctica" from Meathaus S.O.S. anthology.
- See also: Remainder: A Wrenchies Story (TOR.com, 2014).
- Locust Moon:
- Quarter Moon #4: "The Often Wrong" (w/a, anthology, 2014)
- Prometheus Eternal: "Prometheus is Here!" (a, with Grant Morrison, anthology one-shot, 2014)
- Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream: "Slumberland" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, 144 pages, 2014, )
- Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers vol. 2 #3 (a, with Joe Casey, Nathan Fox and Jim Mahfood, Dynamite, 2014)
- Palefire (a, with M. K. Reed, graphic novel, 68 pages, Secret Acres, 2015, )
- Cayrels Ring #1: "Chapter Five" (a, with Shannon Lentz, Kickstarter, 2018)
- 20202020 (w/a 80 pages, Floating World Comics, 2022, )
- MONSTER-US!!! (w/a with SOPH FRANZ, 64 pages, FLOATING WORLD COMICS, 2023, )
- SEPT âÂÂnâ EMBER ( w/a 32 pages, FLOATING WORLD COMICS, 2024, )
- ROBOT TOD #1-2 ( w/a FLOATING WORLD COMICS, 2025)
Covers only
- Getting the Sex out of the Way #1 (Meathaus Press, 2002)
- The Guild: Bladezz #1 (Dark Horse, 2011)
- Prophet #23, 40 (Image, 2012âÂÂ2013)
- Once Upon a Time Machine Volume 1-2 gn (Locust Moon, 2012âÂÂ2018)
- Deadly Class #1 (Image, 2014)
- Draw! #28 (TwoMorrows, 2014)
- Island #3 (Image, 2015)
- Seven to Eternity #3, 7 (Image, 2016âÂÂ2017)
- Doom Patrol vol. 6 #5 (DC's Young Animal, 2017)
- Death or Glory #3 (Image, 2018)
- Black Hammer: Age of Doom #6 (Dark Horse, 2018)
- Grumble #3 (Albatross Exploding Funny Books, 2019)
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