Jimbo's Inferno
ダンテを下敷きにした、実験的で視覚性の強いグラフィック作品。
作品情報
寓意と絵の勢いで、地獄めぐりを別の形に組み替える。
ジムボーの旅をダンテ的な地獄巡りに重ね、パンサー特有の荒々しい線と不穏なユーモアで押し切る。短いが密度の高い実験作。
レビュー要約
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難解さも含めて、独自の絵作りと参照の豊かさが評価されている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Fantagraphics Books
- 発売日
- 2006-04-10
- ページ数
- 40ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 28.19 x 1.27 x 38.1 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781560976912
- ISBN-10
- 1560976918
- 価格
- 42399 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Novels
"Don't try to pass a pop quiz on Dante's Hell based on a reading of this comic," warns Gary Panter. "It won't work. Even though the comic is engorged with Dante's Hell and though Jimbo mouths a super-condensed version of what happens in The Inferno , canto by canto, characters are fused, actions inverted, parodied, subject to mutation by my odd memories and obsessions and whims…" That said, Jimbo's Inferno is the hugely anticipated sequel (or prequel, as it was actually completed first) to Jimbo In Purgatory . In this oversize hardcover cloth-and-gold-finished volume, produced to the same exacting standards as 2004's Purgatory , Jimbo, accompanied by his trusty guide and ride Valise, visits Hell (here envisioned as a gigantic subterranean shopping mall called Focky Bocky), and in so doing runs across minotaurs, drug-addled punkettes, UFOs, giant robots, and more, leading him to such profound questions as, "Why do so many recreational activities involve smoke and heat?" Panter's wild Albrecht-Dürer-meets-Jack-Kirby graphics are wilder and more hallucinatory than ever, and given the full, expansive treatment they so richly deserve.
レビュー
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I love the shattering of hi/lo-brow castes here, the fusion of grungy zine work right at home in the Fields of the Lord. I also feel like I’ll probably switch to 5 stars once I have time to revisit influences and explore the other volumes. I love what Panter is doing here - unoriginal name drops but I sense a aesthetic and formal commonalities with Woodring and Regé. Great great stuff, which I’m long overdue to be reading.
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Be aware this is a huge book! Doesn't fit on my shelves but is a totally ace read
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