Crashpad

By Gary Panter

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683964160
• ISBN13: 9781683964162
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.2" x 14.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up