Jimbo in Purgatory

Jimbo in Purgatory Being a Mis-Recounting of Dante Aligheier's Divine Comedy in Pictures and Un-Numbered Footnotes

1st Fantagraphics Books Edition

Hardback (01 Apr 2004)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Gary Panter has been one of America's pre-eminent designers and cartoonists of the last quarter century: he was one of the graphic minds behind the award-winning Peewee's Playhouse show and one of the pillars of the legendary Raw magazine. His early graphics defined the California punk ethos and the alternative zine scene. Presented here in an oversized hardbcak format to do justice to Panter's densely packed pages, Jimbo in Purgatory is an art object, a brilliant literary game, a visual feats and the most challenging and memorable new graphic novel of the year.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781560975724
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Fantagraphics Books Edition
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 33
Weight: 1102g
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 12mm