{"id":14630,"date":"2017-11-20T21:11:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T04:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=14630"},"modified":"2017-11-21T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T22:23:05","slug":"rare-books-jimbo-in-purgatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2017\/11\/20\/rare-books-jimbo-in-purgatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Books: Jimbo In Purgatory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimbo In Purgatory, by Gary Panter, in FINE condition, for $79.95, shipping included, email Robert@RareAndStrange.com ~ currently on Ebay HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“FOUNDER OF “PUNK” ART REINVENTS DANTE THROUGH HIS CHARACTER JIMBO IN THIS LANDMARK GRAPHIC NOVEL. Gary Panter has been one of America’s preeminent designers and cartoonists of the last quarter century: In addition to being a prolific and sought-after illustrator, he was one of the graphic minds behind the award-winning Peewee’s Playhouse show, and, as the creator of Jimbo, one of the pillars of the legendary RAW magazine. Panter’s early graphics defined the California punk ethos and the alternative zine scene — and although he hasn’t achieved the notoriety of Keith Haring or Kenny Scharf, the post-Pop painting world is also deeply in his debt. Now, Fantagrphics is proud to present a major, all-new book by Panter: Jimbo in Purgatory. In this spectacular graphic novel, Panter has transformed his protean punk hero Jimbo into the protagonist of a reinterpretation of Dante’s Purgatorio. After years of comparing Dante and Boccaccio to find commonalities between the two, Panter developed a narrative of his own that includes literary and pop references regularly injected throughout the captions of the reinterpreted cantos. In Panter’s adaptation, Jimbo traverses a vast infotainment-testing center built in the shape of Dante’s Mount Purgatory. Within its borders every man or robot stands in for a character in the Divine Comedy. In this version all the participants in the drama must respond to one another within a lunatic logic wherein each quotes a literary fragment that demonstrates their respective knowledge of a particular passage and its import to the specific location in a poem. Presented in a huge, oversize hardcover format (even bigger than the classic RAW!) to do Justice to Panter’s densely packed pages, with a stunning two-color stamping on the cloth covers, Jimbo in Purgatory is an art object, a brilliant literary game, a visual feast, and the most eye-popping, visually and verbally challenging, and memorable new graphic novel of the year.” ~from Goodreads<\/p>\n

“Panter’s long-awaited new work is a gigantic (12″ x 17 1\/4″) hardcover which re-imagines his cult hero Jimbo as the protagonist in Dante’s most famous work! After years of comparing Dante and Boccaccio to find commonalities between the two, Panter developed a narrative of his own that includes literary and pop references regularly injected throughout the captions of the reinterpreted cantos. Presented in a huge oversized hardcover format (even bigger than the classic RAW!) to do justice to Panter’s densely packed pages, with a stunning two-color stamping on the cloth covers, Jimbo in Purgatory is an art object, a brilliant literary game, a visual feast, and the most eye-popping, visually and verbally challenging, and memorable new graphic novel of the year…” ~from the publisher’s website<\/p>\n

“Jimbo in Purgatory is Gary Panter’s magnum opus, the summit of an enormously important artistic career.” \u2013 National Post<\/p>\n

“Panter’s art is about moral and aesthetic contradictions. His drawing can be at once wretchedly grotesque and unfathomably charming; he delights in the underbelly and revels in the prosaic. His pictures sometimes look as though they were rendered with a fork, but each line has an expressive purpose.” \u2013 Steven Heller<\/p>\n

“Panter’s most sustained and intense visual effort ever. When I saw it, I broke out into the cold sweat that real art can bring on.” \u2013 Art Spiegelman<\/p>\n

“Easily the best graphic novel of 2004.” \u2013 Publishers Weekly<\/p>\n

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[Rare Books 4 Sale] Jimbo In Purgatory Jimbo In Purgatory, by Gary Panter, in FINE condition, for $79.95, shipping included, email Robert@RareAndStrange.com ~ currently on Ebay HERE. “FOUNDER OF “PUNK” ART REINVENTS DANTE THROUGH HIS CHARACTER JIMBO IN THIS LANDMARK GRAPHIC NOVEL. Gary Panter has been one of America’s preeminent designers and cartoonists of the last quarter century: In addition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1496,598,1498,1497],"tags":[1502,1504,1499,1500,1503,1501],"class_list":["post-14630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-cabal","category-books","category-books-4-sale","category-rare-and-strange","tag-book-cabal","tag-books-4-sale","tag-gary-panter-jimbo-in-purgatory","tag-grafix","tag-rare-and-strange","tag-raw-magazine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14622,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2017\/11\/19\/rare-and-strange-book-cabal\/","url_meta":{"origin":14630,"position":0},"title":"Rare and Strange Book Cabal","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"November 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"[Rare Books 4 Sale] Library Items Parting With Personal Volumes A Much Regretful Rare Book Sale by Reviewer Rob You're going to begin seeing posts here from me hawking items from my personal library that I have been holding on to, some for 15 or 20 years, many highly collectible.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "books"","block_context":{"text":"books","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14600,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2017\/11\/15\/rare-books-4sale-motorbooty-9\/","url_meta":{"origin":14630,"position":1},"title":"Rare Books 4Sale: Motorbooty #9.","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"November 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"[Book Cabal] Motorbooty #9 \u00a0 \u00a0 Rare and strange, Books For Sale: the iconic grafix comix magazine from the tail-end of the Twentieth Century, MOTORBOOTY issue number nine, $20, plus shipping ($3.99), very good condition with very slight edge wear on lower-right corner, email Robert@BookCabal.com. 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