CRASHPAD HC GARY PANTER
(W) GARY PANTER (A) GARY PANTER
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.
SONGY OF PARADISE HC
(W) GARY PANTER (A) GARY PANTER (CA) GARY PANTER
Inspired by John Milton's Paradise Regained, Songy of Paradise is an interpretation of the story of Jesus being tempted by Satan in the desert with one notable exception: Jesus has been replaced by a hillbilly. Both an art object and a brilliant literary experiment, it will surely be the most eyepopping graphic novel of 2017.