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PORTLAND: Guy Colwell book release and signing! Sunday Oct. 13, 4-6pm Floating World Comics @floatingworld.bsky.social#pdxcomics

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An obsessive painter, working away for years in near secrecy, now reveals a magnum opus to the world — author and subject, intertwined. We are excited to host a book release for Guy Colwell's first full graphic novel in 33 years - Delights. We see one painter, Colwell himself, consider another, Hieronymus Bosch, and the story behind the latter's most notable work told in sequential panels. The known details of Bosch's life, and the commissioning of his enormous triptych "The Garden Of Earthly Delights," are scant. Colwell takes the facts of Bosch's time and setting and constructs a tale of a man and artist torn equally among piety, creativity, and commerce. In Colwell's version of Jheronimus van Aken (Bosch's real name), he is an artist paid well by local dukes to paint a vision of the world before the fall, but will the religious leaders of his village see it as celebrating God's creation, or fatally corrupted by sensuality?
WHO: Guy Colwell WHAT: Delights book release and signing WHEN: Sunday Oct. 13, 4-6pm WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center "Painter and underground cartoonist Colwell turns the commissioning of The Garden of Earthly Delights in late 15th-century Netherlands into an epochal struggle between faith and doubt, superstition and reason. ... a thought-provoking venture into a time when art had life-or-death consequences." — Publishers Weekly
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