Books by Gary Panter and Complete Book Reviews
Gary Panter, Author . Funny Garbage Press $24.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-9701626-0-1
Legendary underground cartoonist Panter's comics are typically anarchic and fun, but they also delve deeper. First produced in 1983, Cola Madness
is published here in book form for the first time. The work stars Jimbo, Panter's enduring...
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Gary Panter, Author . Fantagraphics $29.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56097-572-4
Panter has been a leading figure in underground comics for more than 25 years, and he's had a profound influence on everyone from Chris Ware to Matt Groening. He's generally credited with giving a graphic identity to the L.A. punk scene, and
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Gary Panter, Author . Drawn & Quarterly $19.95 (102p) ISBN 978-1-896597-86-7
Panter is famed in underground comics circles for his voluminous sketchbooks. This facsimile of a 1999–2001 sketchbook is a departure from his usual stream-of-consciousness psychedelia. As he writes in his introduction, this work
was more of a
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Gary Panter, Author . Fantagraphics $29.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-56097-691-2
Panter is a legend of independent comics; considered the father of punk comics, he has influenced many, including Matt Groening, and warped the look of children's television with his sets for Pee Wee's Playhouse
. Jimbo's Inferno
is the
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Gary Panter. Fantagraphics, $34.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-68396-028-7
Panter’s riff on Milton’s Paradise Regained promises to entertain “without Milton’s verbosity,” and it manages to cut to the quick of the least acknowledged of Milton’s religious verse epics. While many of the elements of Panter’s satirical scuzz-pun
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Gary Panter. Fantagraphics, $39.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-68396-416-2
This road-trip fantasia from underground psychedelia artist Panter (the Jimbo series) flips the script on the classic counterculture story of hippies just wanna have fun. The work opens with lavishly drawn stream-of-consciousness riffs on imploding...
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