On sale date: February 23, 2021
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.
All remaining copies of Crashpad are sold "as is" with potential dings on the spines and covers and some warping of the front cover. We cannot accept returns due to existing damage on these books.
Praise
"Publishing these pages in all their oversize glory reveals the human gradations of [Panter's] inky sky, occasional marginalia, faint pencil often visible underneath the figures." — The New York Times
"Panter's painstakingly detailed acid-trip vision offers art comics heads an immersive rabbit-hole experience and sneaky satire on a navel-gazing subculture." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"It's hard to overstate the importance of Gary Panter to the art world and to popular culture." — Artforum
"In Panter's drawings, a line is not the shortest path between two points, but a slow, wavering one, a termite's crawl with endless detours and distractions... this line is the constant. It intensifies his viewers' gaze, forcing them to reexamine forms they thought they knew." — Art In America
"Gary Panter, a prolific cartoonist who emerged in the eighties as the leading proponent of punk comics, has long been interested in blending mystical fantasy and literature to create wryly irreverent comics." — The New Yorker
Specs
- Pages
- 80
- Format
- Hardback
- Color
- Color and black and white.
- Dimensions
- 11.3" × 14.3"
- ISBN-13
- 9781683964162