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Gary Panter

    Gary Panter is een kunstenaar die traditionele grenzen tussen schilderkunst, design, strips en commerciële beeldtaal doorbreekt. Zijn werk, gekenmerkt door een eclectische en vaak punk-geïnfuseerde aanpak, verkent thema's als subcultuur, consumentisme en de angsten van het atoomtijdperk. Via zijn alter ego Jimbo probeert Panter het mainstream te infiltreren met underground-ideeën, wat een generatie makers heeft beïnvloed. Zijn visueel rijke en energieke werken verleggen voortdurend de grenzen van artistieke expressie.

    Gary Panter Volume 1 -2
    What the Songs Look Like
    Jimbo's Inferno
    • Jimbo's Inferno

      • 48bladzijden
      • 2 uur lezen

      "Don't try to pass a pop quiz on Dante's Hell based on a reading of this comic," warns Gary Panter. "It won't work. Even though the comic is engorged with Dante's Hell and though Jimbo mouths a super-condensed version of what happens in The Inferno, canto by canto, characters are fused, actions inverted, parodied, subject to mutation by my odd memories and obsessions and whims..." That said, Jimbo's Inferno is the hugely anticipated sequel (or prequel, as it was actually completed first) to Jimbo In Purgatory. In this oversize hardcover cloth-and-gold-finished volume, produced to the same exacting standards as 2004's Purgatory, Jimbo, accompanied by his trusty guide and ride Valise, visits Hell (here envisioned as a gigantic subterranean shopping mall called Focky Bocky), and in so doing runs across minotaurs, drug-addled punkettes, UFOs, giant robots, and more, leading him to such profound questions as, "Why do so many recreational activities involve smoke and heat?" Panter's Albrecht Dürer-meets-Jack Kirby graphics are wilder and more hallucinatory than ever, and given the full, expansive treatment they so richly deserve.

      Jimbo's Inferno2006
      3,7
    • What the Songs Look Like

      Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads' Songs

      • 125bladzijden
      • 5 uur lezen

      Blending musical influences from blues, country, reggae and classical music with their own original style, Talking Heads are "the thinking man's rock band" whose last four albums have each sold over one million copies. 60 four-color plates.

      What the Songs Look Like1987