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Crashpad

$39.99

by Gary Panter

This fine art monograph/faux underground comic facsimile is a psychedelic trip through the hippie movement. By Gary Panter, creator of Jimbo, Dal Tokyo and Cola Madness; part of the bands Devin, Gary & Ross and Fog Mirror, Emmy Award Winning Pee Wee’s Playhouse designer. Super awesome dude.
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 9781683964162
SKU: 9781683964162 Categories: , , Product ID: 82989

Description

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. An art object itself, it will be reproduced as both a deluxe, oversized hardcover reproducing Panter’s pages at full size on heavy art paper, as full-color facsimiles of the originals. In addition, Crashpad will be printed as an old-fashioned and stapled black-and-white (with color covers) underground comic book, on newsprint, approximately 6″ x 9″, inserted into a sleeve within the hardcover so it can be removed and enjoyed on its own.

“Panter’s painstakingly detailed acid-trip vision offers art comics heads an immersive rabbit-hole experience and sneaky satire on a navel-gazing subculture.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“In Panter’s drawings, a line is not the shortest path between two points, but a slow, wavering one, a termite’s crawl with endless detours and distractions… this line is the constant. It intensifies his viewers’ gaze, forcing them to reexamine forms they thought they knew.” — Art In America

“Gary Panter, a prolific cartoonist who emerged in the eighties as the leading proponent of punk comics, has long been interested in blending mystical fantasy and literature to create wryly irreverent comics.” — The New Yorker

40 page black and white and color 11.25″ × 14.25″ hardcover
with 32 page black and white with color covers comic book in attached folder
Awesome vibrant endpapers
Fantagraphics Books, 2021

Additional information

Weight 26 oz
Dimensions 14.5 × 11.75 × .5 in