Farel Dalrymple

Farel Dalrymple
Dalrymple, photographed at the 2004 Alternative Press Expo (APE) in San Francisco.
BornFarel DeShongh Dalrymple
1972
Hollywood, California
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Inker
Pseudonym(s)Farel Dal
Notable works
Pop Gun War, The Wrenchies, ROBOT TOD
AwardsXeric Award, 2000
Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, 2002
https://www.fareldal.com/

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",[1] 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[1] and has been creating comics since 1999.[2]

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.[3] Dalrymple illustrated Omega the Unknown, a 10-issue series written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Marvel in 2007 and 2008.[4] First Second Books published The Wrechies in 2014; and Image Comics published additional volumes of Pop Gun War in 2016 and 2017.[5]

In January 2025, Floating World Comics began publishing Robot Tod, a full-color ongoing series.[6]

Awards

Dalrymple has received several awards, including a Xeric Foundation grant,[2] 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.[2]

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, ISBN 0-9665-1180-8)[7]
  • Supermundane (w/a):
  • 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, ISBN 1-5697-1934-9)
    • Reprinted by Image as Pop Gun War: The Gift (tpb, 144 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-6321-5773-X)

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, ISBN 0-9800-9240-X)
  • 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)
  • 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, ISBN 1-5930-7201-5)
    • Reprinted in Grendel Omnibus Volume 1: Hunter Rose (tpb, 600 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-5958-2893-1)
  • AutobioGraphix: "The Tree" (a, with Richard Doutt, anthology graphic novel, 104 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-5930-7038-1)
  • 24Seven Volume 1: "Pirhanas" (a, with Jasen Lex, anthology graphic novel, 224 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-5824-0636-7)
  • MySpace Dark Horse Presents (anthology):
    • "Moist: Humidity Rising" (a, with Zack Whedon, in #17, 2008) collected in Volume 3 (tpb, 168 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-59582-327-1)
    • "Em and Gwen in: Magic Spell" (w/a, in #21, 2009) collected in Volume 4 (tpb, 176 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-5958-2405-7)
  • 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, ISBN 1-6070-6611-4)
    • Brothers (includes #29, tpb, 172 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6070-6749-8)
    • Joining (includes #45, tpb, 168 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-6321-5254-1)
  • 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, ISBN 1-5343-0192-5)
  • Thought Bubble Anthology #5: "Nancy Boy" (a, with Rick Remender, 2015) collected in Thought Bubble Anthology (tpb, 136 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-5343-0067-8)
  • Proxima Centauri #1-6 (w/a, 2018) collected as Proxima Centauri (tpb, 160 pages, 2019, ISBN 1-5343-1029-0)
  • THE OFTEN WRONG, (tpb, 360 pages, 2019, ISBN 978-1-5343-1352-1)
  • From Hell's Heart: "Typee" (a, with Herman Melville and John Arcudi, anthology graphic novel, 128 pages, A Wave Blue World, 2019, ISBN 1-9495-1802-7)

Other publishers

Covers only

References

  1. ^ a b Ellis, Jonathan. "Interview: Farel Dalrymple, Pop Gun Genius," PopImage (Jan. 2002). Accessed Dec. 27, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c Neil Gaiman, ed., The Best American Comics 2010 (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 319
  3. ^ Chin-Tanner, Tyler (August 14, 2014). "It Will All Hurt: An Interview with Farel Dalrymple about His New Graphic Novel, 'The Wrenchies'". Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  4. ^ Garcia, Matthew (October 6, 2015). "When Marvel Went Weird – "Omega the Unknown" [Review]". Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  5. ^ Lehoczky, Etelka (June 22, 2017). "Shades Of Gray Turn Sumptuous In 'Chain Letter'". Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  6. ^ Johnston, Rich (October 7, 2024). "Robot Tod #1 by Farel Dalrymple, in Print From Floating World for 2025". Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  7. ^ Anthology of short vignettes based around the proverbs of Solomon and the parables of Christ.