Gary Panter

Cartoons offer a satirical look at America through the experiences of Jimbo as his girlfriend is kidnapped by cockroaches and he faces his fears of nuclear war

Adventures in Paradise

Jimbo

This fine art monograph/faux underground comic facsimile is a psychedelic trip through the hippie movement. In 2017, Gary Panter created an art installation, Hippie Trip, inspired by his first visit to a head shop in 1968. It expanded his mind to the possibilities of psychedelic art and music, analog crafts and drug culture. Crashpad is an extension of that installation and a riff on underground comics creators such as Zap's R. Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Robert Williams, and other icons of that era.

Crashpad

custom drawings

100.1 Andy Warhol

Al Columbia

Robert Crumb

Chris Ware

Charles Burns

Stéphane Blanquet

Blexbolex

Jim Woodring

Tom Neely

Trevor Brown

C. F.

Mark Ryden

Bruno Richard

Boris Artzybasheff

Makoto Aida

Mathieu Desjardins

Pascal Doury

Sylvain Gérand

Bory Hayes

Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch

Beth Love

Loulou Picasso

Kêiti Ôta

Raise Hell

Gary Panter began imagining Dal Tokyo, a future Mars that is terraformed by Texan and Japanese workers, as far back as 1972, appropriating a friend’s idea about “cultural and temporal collision” (The “Dal” is short for Dallas).Why Texan and Japanese? Panter says, “Because they are trapped in Texas, Texans are self-mythologizing. Because I was trapped in Texas at the time, I needed to believe that the broken tractor out back was a car of the future. Japanese, I’ll say, because of the exotic far-awayness of Japan from Texas, and because of the Japanese monster movies and woodblock prints that reached out to me in Texas. Japanese monster movies are part of the fabric of Texas.”In 1983, Panter finally got a chance to fully explore this world, and share it with an audience, when the L.A. Reader published the first 63 strips. A few years later, the Japanese reggae magazine Riddim picked up the strip, and Panter continued the saga of Dal Tokyo in monthly installments for over a decade.But none of these conceptual descriptions will prepare the reader for the confounding visual and verbal richness of Dal Tokyo, as Panter’s famous “ratty line” collides and colludes with near-Joycean wordplay, veering from more or less intelligible jokes to dizzying non-sequiturs to surreal eruptions that can engulf the entire panel in scribbles. One doesn't read Dal Tokyo; one is absorbed into it and spit out the other side.

Dal Tokyo

These masters of the underground comix scene have created an updated version of an old children's board-book favorite. Facetasm is a children's board-book for teenagers and grown-ups alike -- the artists have created 16 cool and creepy faces which break up into three sections -- top, middle and bottom, so that you can mix and match the faces to form over 700 different nightmarish combinations. When this book first came out in a limited-edition run it became an instant classic. Although the book went out of print over three years ago, there has been a constant demand for it, and now it's finally reprinted in a new size and format with four more faces to play with! Perfect for Halloween and for Christmas giving to practically anyone!

A Creepy Mix & Match Book of Gross Face Mutations!

Facetasm

Jimbo's Inferno is the hugely anticipated sequel (or prequel, as it was actually completed first) to Jimbo In Purgatory. In this 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?"

Jimbo's Inferno

Wildest Dream

Fantagraphics is proud to present a major, all-new book by Gary Panter. Songy of Paradise is an inspired interpretation of John Milton’s retelling of the story of Jesus being tempted by Satan after being baptized by John the Baptist and fasting for forty days and nights in the Judaean Desert. Panter’s version doesn’t rely on Milton’s words, but faithfully follows the structure of Milton’s Paradise Regained, with one notable exception: Jesus has been replaced by a hillbilly, Songy, who is on a vision quest before being tempted by a chimeric Satan figure. Gary Panter is one of America’s preeminent artists, designers, and cartoonists, whose work defined the L.A. punk scene and the vibrant work of the television show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. Songy of Paradise presents Panter’s singular vision in an ornate, hardcover format that does justice to Panter’s densely packed pages, with a stunning two-color stamping on cloth covers. It will be an art object, a brilliant literary experiment, and the most eye-popping graphic novel of 2017.

Songy of Paradise

Gary Panter

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