Two recent volumes from NYRB Comics—Gary Panter's "Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise" and "It's Life As I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980"—highlight the artistry and ingenuity of an…
In Gary 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.