Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise

Panter, Gary/ Rudick, Nicole (Afterword)/ Ruscha, Ed (Foreward By)

ISBN 10: 1681375265 / ISBN 13: 9781681375267

Published by New York Review of Books, 2021

104 pages. 12.25x9.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # 1681375265

Synopsis:

A futuristic punk ventures through a madcap, dystopian fantasia in this astounding work of comics literature by a celebrated artist and illustrator.

Gary Panter is one of America's great creative forces: illustrator for the trailblazing punk magazine Slash, set designer for the legendary TV show Pee-wee's Playhouse, and one of the wildest, most innovative comics artists of all time. Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise is a leap into the uproarious life of Panter's ever-cheerful punk everyman, Jimbo, and a perfect introduction to Panter's ever-shifting style. Amid a jumbled cityscape of rundown NYC streets and futuristic LA freeways, Jimbo crowd surfs at a riot, makes amends with Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy, and rescues his pal Smoggo's sister from giant cockroaches, all while the world teeters between extravagance and apocalypse.

Veering between the crude and the elegant, the wise and the funny, Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise proves Panter is a master of cartooning, and still way ahead of the rest of us.

About the Author: Gary Panter is a highly influential comics artist, painter, illustrator, and designer. He helped shape the visual identity of the 1970s punk scene in Los Angeles and was a key contributor to Raw magazine in the 1980s. A three-time Emmy winner for his set designs for Pee-wee's Playhouse, he received the Chrysler Award for Design Excellence in 2000 and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2014.

Ed Ruscha is one of the most influential American artists of the postwar era. Renowned for his experimentations with text and image and the repurposing of graphic design elements in his art, he lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Nicole Rudick is a critic and editor. She has written widely on art, literature, and comics for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, the Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She was managing editor of The Paris Review for nearly a decade and edited two issues of the magazine as well as The Writer's Chapbook: A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from The Paris Review Interviews.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New