Jimbo: A Raw One-Shot
New York: Raw Books & Graphics, (1982). Softcover. This entire issue of a Raw One-Shot is dedicated to the Gary Panter's famous punk character Jimbo, with several stories published over time, mainly from Slash. Gary Panter (1950 - ) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. Panter's work is representative of the post-underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of Arcade: The Comics Revue and the initiation of RAW, one of the main instigators of American alternative comics. The Comics Journal has called Panter the "Greatest Living Cartoonist." Panter has published his work in various magazines and newspapers, including Time and Rolling Stone, and in notable comics anthologies such as Raw, BLAB!, Zero Zero, Anarchy Comics, Weirdo, Kramers Ergot, and Young Lust. He has exhibited widely, and won two Daytime Emmy Awards for his set designs for Pee-wee's Playhouse. His most notable works include Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise, Jimbo's Inferno, and Facetasm, the latter of which was created together with Charles Burns (and which won a Firecracker Alternative Book Award). Panter was still a student at East Texas State University in the early 1970s when Jimbo first popped up unbidden in a comic story he was writing. A few years later, creator and creation met their moment in the Los Angeles punk scene. “Adventures in Paradise” was a decade in the making (1978-88), with parts originally appearing in the magazine Slash, The L.A. Reader and the seminal New York-based comics anthology “Raw.”
This issue is bound in brown cardboard covers with a black spine and an illustrated red, white, and black title label. The magazine's interior covers are in color but the comic story pages are black and white. The last page has an ad for Raw subscriptions and an ad for Gary Panter posters. Creasing and light bumping to the front cardboard otherwise very good condition. Measures 11 x 14.5 inches. Irregularly paginated as each comic was published separately. About 38 pages. HUMOR/091124. Very Good.
Item #37459
Price: $125.00