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Got this off the fantagraphics website:
http://www.fantagraphics.com/news/102600.html
<<<* COLA MADNESS By Gary Panter -- $24.95 ($37.45 in Canada) -- Funny Garbage Press has unearthed one of the great comics finds of the last 20 years: an original, never before published 200 page "Jimbo" graphic novel drawn by Gary Panter in 1983. COLA MADNESS is the most ambitious and sustained comics narrative of Panter's career, and it's remarkable that it has remained hidden for so long. The acknowledged "Father of Punk Art," contributor to RAW, and co-creator of PEE WEE's PLAYHOUSE, Panter originally conceived and drew COLA MADNESS for a Japanese audience, and as such utilizes a simple two-panel per page layout and employs an unusually-accessible narrative style to tell the story of a mysterious tribal figure named Kokomo, who eventually falls asleep to dream a wild, 150-page picaresque 'interlude' starring Jimbo and Bob War. In this allegory of man against nature, the two careen through a synthetic fantasy world where Jack-in-the-Bell-Mc-Taco restaurants mask sewage treatment plants, while a nature symbol gone berserk unravels everything. The book comes full-circle upon Kokomo's awakening, as Panter infuses equal parts Jack Kirby, Phillip K. Dick, and punk rock to create one of the best graphic novels to come out in any year.>>>
Sounds interesting, will seek out. |
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