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.
Farel Dalrymple

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- Birth Name
- Farel DeShongh Dalrymple
- Born
- 1972
- Birthplace
- Hollywood, California
- Nationality
- American
- Awards
- Xeric Award, 2000 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, 2002
- Occupation
- cartoonist · artist · illustrator
- Fields
- comic · graphics · illustration
- Education
- School of Visual Arts
- Honours
- Xeric Award
- Languages
- English
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Farel Dalrymple is an American artist and alternative comics creator. He is best known for his award-winning comics series Pop Gun War.
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• Birth Name — Farel DeShongh Dalrymple • Born — 1972 • Birthplace — Hollywood, California • Nationality — American • Cartoonist — y • Write — y • Pencil — y • Ink — y • Alias — Farel Dal • Notable Works — Pop Gun War, The Wrenchies, ROBOT TOD • Awards — Xeric Award, 2000 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, 2002 • Website — https: www.fareldal.com/
Career
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.
Early work
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, 2000–2005) • 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), 2000–2002) • 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 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 — part one" (also editor of the issue, in #4, 2001) • "Ms. Umbrella pt. 2 — 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 — five pages of Dalrymple's drawings in each, 2002–2004) • Go for the Gold #1-4 (w/a, collective sketchbooks, 2004–2011) • Spigot (w/a, convention zine, 2006)
Dark Horse & Image Comics
Dark Horse & Image Comics
• 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, 2012–2014) 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, 2015–2017) 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)
DC Comics & Marvel Comics
DC Comics & Marvel Comics
• Caper #1-4 (of 12): "Market Street" (a, with Judd Winick, 2003–2004) • 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, 2007–2008) 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
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, 2012–2015) • 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 ‘n’ EMBER (w/a 32 pages, FLOATING WORLD COMICS, 2024) • ROBOT TOD #1-2 (w/a FLOATING WORLD COMICS, 2025)
Covers only
Covers only
• Getting the Sex out of the Way #1 (Meathaus Press, 2002) • The Guild: Bladezz #1 (Dark Horse, 2011) • Prophet #23, 40 (Image, 2012–2013) • Once Upon a Time Machine Volume 1-2 gn (Locust Moon, 2012–2018) • Deadly Class #1 (Image, 2014) • Draw! #28 (TwoMorrows, 2014) • Island #3 (Image, 2015) • Seven to Eternity #3, 7 (Image, 2016–2017) • 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)
Life and career
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Life and career
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1972
Farel Dalrymple born at Los Angeles.
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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.
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