Paul Pope Illustrations

It's very uncommon to see Paul Pope to do an editorial illo for a magazine. Even more uncommon is it to see him do TWO in the same month. This morning I picked up the latest issues of GQ and Wired to find full-page Pope illos in both.

Being a mag guy and a comic guy, I'm always fascinated with who magazines are assigning work to, especially when it's a comics person. I'm not sure why they both went to Pope, though. It's unfortunate for the magazines they both have him because neither really has those exclusive bragging rights about scoring a cool illustrator. But it IS good for the readers, though, since you get two doses of Pope goodness.