Farel Dalrymple


Farel Dalrymple is an American artist and alternative comics creator. He is best known for his award-winning comics series Pop Gun War.
WWW fareldalrymple.com

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.

Early work

  • Behold 3D: "Sunship G'Hide-E1"
  • Proverbs & Parables
  • Supermundane :
  • *Smith's Adventures in the Supermundane
  • *Supermundane #1-30
  • *Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings: "Happy Ending"
  • Pop Gun War #1-5 and Absence of Ink
  • * Reprinted by Dark Horse, as Pop Gun War
  • * Reprinted by Image as ''Pop Gun War: The Gift''

Meathaus Press

  • Meathaus :
  • * "Honkey. Like donkey but with an "H""
  • * "Rejection"
  • * "We're all out"
  • * "Ms. Umbrella — part one"
  • * "Ms. Umbrella pt. 2 — grab your elbow skin"
  • * "The Regular"
  • * "Centillion"
  • * "i don't like anybody except for people i like"
  • * "fotologica"
  • Beef Apt. #1-2
  • Go for the Gold #1-4
  • ''Spigot''

Dark Horse">Dark Horse Comics">Dark Horse & [Image Comics]

[DC Comics] & [Marvel Comics]

Other publishers

  • Typewriter #6: "Untitled"
  • Jenny Finn: Messiah
  • Project: Superior :
  • *Project: Superior: "Hollis"
  • *Superior Sampler #2: "The Awesomest Super Guy, Hollis in: Shadowsmen"
  • '
  • VICE :
  • * '
  • * '
  • * '
  • Papercutter #14: "Live with Our Clerics"
  • ' #1-6
  • * Published by Study Group as a three-issue mini-series in printed form.
  • * Collected by Image as a trade paperback
  • The Wrenchies
  • * Includes short story "fotogloctica" from Meathaus S.O.S. anthology.
  • * See also: '.
  • Locust Moon:
  • *Quarter Moon #4: "The Often Wrong"
  • *Prometheus Eternal: "Prometheus is Here!"
  • *Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream: "Slumberland"
  • Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers vol. 2 #3
  • Palefire
  • Cayrels Ring #1: "Chapter Five"
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