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Tag Archives: Gary Panter

On The Mount — An interview with Gary Panter

comics and cartooning, interviews, lettersBy Matthias Wivel23 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 Wivel11 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…

The End of an Era

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticismBy T. Thorhauge7 March 20121 Comment

By Thomas Thorhauge It was a surprise when Sammy Harkham and Picture Box publisher Dan Nadel announced their plans for Kramers Ergot 8 about a year ago. Some of us had assumed that the monumental Kramers Ergot 7 had been the decadent word in what has been by far the most groundbreaking comics anthology of…

Picks of the Week

comics and cartooning, culture, film, tv, video, history, hype & linkage, philosophy and theoryBy Matthias Wivel28 February 2011

The picks of the week from around the web. Eagleton on Hobsbawn on Marxism. Three-in-one. What’s not to like? Kirb Your Enthusiasm. HiLowbrow is currently running a relay series on Jack Kirby, with 24 writers, artists and critics each writing about one panel of choice from The King. Good contributions from Gary Panter, Ann Nocenti,…

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