What do you get when you combine Jack Kirby, with Pablo Picasso? You get Gary Panter's Jimbo. It’s one
part Kamandi and one part Guernica. Jimbo is a fun adventure story as well as a statement on art and esthetics of our time.
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| Jimbo is from RAW Magazine #8: "The Graphic Aspirin for War Fever" (September 1986) |
Jimbo is a young punk who finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world of rotting ghost horses running down the street of demolished cities. In an odd way his work reflects our own world and media with it’s grotesque news stories of war and oil spills and man-made disasters. Gary Panter’s work reflects this in a fascinating, grotesquely beautiful way. It's abrasive, shocking, senseless and yet totally compelling.
