Tag Archives: Boccaccio

On The Mount — An interview with Gary Panter

comics and cartooning, interviews, lettersBy Matthias Wivel 23 October 2012

This interview with Gary Panter was conducted over a crackling phone line in New York in the spring of 2004. Panter had recently released his magnum opus Jimbo in Purgatory, a reading via comics of the middle part of Dante’s Divine Comedy, the Purgatorio , via Boccaccio and a host of other classics of European…

Comics of the Decade: Gary Panter’s Jimbo in Purgatory

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticism, lettersBy Matthias Wivel 11 September 2012

This is part of a Metabunker series celebrating a great decade in comics with Rackham by reprinting select reviews of the decades’ best comics from the Rackham archive, along with a number of new pieces. Thus the unfacts, did we posses them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude. : James Joyce In the…