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Songy of Paradise
Panter's version doesn't rely on Milton's words, but faithfully follows the structure of Milton's Paradise Regained, with one notable exception: Jesus has been replaced by a hillbilly, Songy, who is on a vision quest before being tempted by a chimeric Satan figure.
Book Details
- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
- Publish Date: Jul 18th, 2017
- Pages: 40
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 14.50in - 11.30in - 0.40in - 1.70lb
- EAN: 9781683960287
- Recommended age: 16-UP
- Categories: • Literary• Individual Artists - General• Popular Culture
About the Author
Panter, Gary: - Gary Panter has lived in Brooklyn since 1985. A multimedia/fine artist, his pioneering, post-underground comix work helped define the alternative comics movement in venues such as Raw, and his aesthetic remains influential. He is a Cullman Study Center fellow and a recipient of a Daimler/Chrysler design award and a Pollock/Krasner Foundation grant. He also has three Emmys for his design work on the classic PeeWee's Playhouse television series.
Praise for this book
Songy, besides giving Milton a jab in the ribs, can be read as a guide to some of the forces and obsessions that have shaped Mr. Panter's art, including: dinosaurs, religion, psychedelia, rural Texas and comics themselves.-- "The New York Times"
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"
This years-in-the-making project from art-comix legend Panter puts John Milton's Paradise Regained through a scratchy, surreal mindwarp.-- "Boston Globe"
Underground comics legend Panter, a veteran of the L.A. punk scene in the '70s, reimagines John Milton's Paradise Regained in this breathtakingly original graphic novel.-- "Los Angeles Times"
In just a few dozen pages, punk-comics pioneer Gary Panter offers up one of the most visually gripping and emotionally soaring pieces of his career. ... Songy serves as a primer for newbies and a treat for connoisseurs of his idiosyncratic takes on the classics of the Western canon.-- "Vulture"
Songy in Paradise is as serious as it is goofball, as awesome (in the original meaning) as it is entertaining, as much of a tribute to Milton's vision as it is a testament to Panter's own.-- "Paste"