5/20/2023 0 Comments Pulp sean phillips![]() In his writing, he gives himself a happy ending, retiring to the good life down in Mexico, with his best friend by his side. Through his frontier tales, he tells stories of his youth as that desperado, trying to straddle what really happened and what he wished happened. In his 60s and living in pre-World War II New York City, Winter makes a meager living writing his story in cowboy pulps. In Pulp, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips tell that same story, the last days of the gunfighter, but shift Max Winter’s experience just enough- he’s not spending his old age on the frontier. The man and the wilderness are inseparable. Think of Clint Eastwood’s Bill Munny in Unforgiven he’s old and grizzled but he’s still part of that frontier world right up to the end. Maybe they’re a bit sadder, worn by time but they’re still part of that wilderness that defined them in their youth. ![]() Young cowboys just become old cowboys and the west never ends. Most stories of cowboys, desperadoes, and gunfighters end with them still living their final days as that cowboy they once were. ![]() ![]() “The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.” ![]()
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