Brock Rizy and David Hopkins on Unfair Park
david hopkins and brock rizy on unfair park. here's the original link.
and the part that mentions them:
"In fact, BenBella’s pop-culture library has proven so successful Yeffeth’s company has launched an imprint called Smart Pop, which includes some 30 books ranging in subject from King Kong to Star Wars to The Simpsons; if something’s got its own DVD boxed set, BenBella has a book to go with it. But, I gotta say, these books aren’t just dork-lit: “They’re very accessible,” says David Hopkins, the Arlington-based comic book writer who does in fact have a wife and a very adorable daughter. Hopkins and illustrator Brock Rizy have a new book, the astounding Emily Edison, due in stores June 28 (but more about that in coming weeks). Hopkins also contributed an essay to BenBella’s new book The Man from Krypton: A Closer Look at Superman; his is titled “A History of Violence,” and it reads like a smart-ass National Public Radio commentary in which he chronicles Superman’s murderous early days with his later tendencies to punch out…uh, snowmen wearing top hats.
“It’s not super-academeic, but it’s not talking down to you,” Hopkins says of the publishing house’s titles. “Most people with a decent college education would get what’s going on in the books… They have this really nice niche. There may be other publishers doing it, but I haven’t seen it. My wife was big into the Pride and Prejudice book they did [Flirting with Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece, published last September]. She read it cover to cover and loved it.” Hopkins is also finishing an essay for an upcoming Spider-man book of essays; I’d call him a dork, but I think he’s just about the coolest guy in the whole wide world." –Robert Wilonsky
yay for david and brock getting a little more press! (brock's work comes down from the magnolia tonight and up goes vladimir's.)
