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Delve into Dante's dark and twisted world with this chilling reimagining of the classic poem The Inferno. Journey through nine circles of torment, each more horrifying than the last, and witness the consequences of sin and greed. With stunning illustrations by Jim Agpalza, this ancient poem comes to life like never before.

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When we think of artistic interpretations of Dante Alighieri's Inferno we are bound to recall William Blake's lovely watercolors or Gustav Doré's elegant engravings, but never has Dante's vision been rendered with such an unflinching eye for the epic poem's horrific and grotesque imagery as in the numerous illustrations Jim Agpalza has crafted for this edition. Here, presented in a bold style both modern and classical, are the nightmarish spectacles one might truly expect to encounter in the torturous nine circles of Hell. Agpalza's work is as disturbing as it is imaginative, and along with the crisp interior design makes this edition of the Inferno something to treasure. -JEFFREY THOMAS author of Punktown There is no greater undertaking for an artist than to guide us through Hell, and no better guide this side of Virgil than Jim Agpalza. Like his predecessor Gustave Dore, Jim has leveraged his peculiar genius for caricature into a transcendent vision of torment and suffering when we thought we'd seen it all. For his efforts, Dore was knighted and inducted into the Legion d'honneur at the end of his life. We should be ashamed to honor Jim Agpalza with anything less. -CODY GOODFELLOW author of Unamerica and Strategies Against Nature For people of a certain bent, that is, people like me, this stunning new edition of The Inferno, enriched by Jim Agpalza's gleefully lurid illustrations, is now the definitive edition of Dante's dark masterpiece. -MATTHEW M. BARTLETT author of Gateways to Abomination The man himself acted like God as a critic, consigning the Florentine artist Cimabue to Purgatory, supposedly for his arrogance, so Doré was fortunate not to be immortalized by Dante. Chiaroscuro was three hundred years in the future (and Dante didn't know how to time-travel), so I think Dante would have loved Mike Dubisch's gorgeous poster (it makes me think of Fruosino warping not only R. Crumb but Mad's Jack Davis with the Tibetan Cave murals of Chakrasamvara. Quite Boschian in recreational activities, this sings Dante in the palette of his time as a bonus. In contrast, Jim Agpalza's cover features one of the beasts so much more interesting than the face of God in Heaven, and lo! the beast is in that to-die-for blue Florentines like Dante so loved. The illustrations take as a starting block, Doré, and go beyond, to where only this superb artist can steal you off to. -ANNA TAMBOUR author of Death Goes to the Dogs

When we think of artistic interpretations of Dante Alighieri's Inferno we are bound to recall William Blake's lovely watercolors or Gustav Dore's elegant engravings, but never has Dante's vision been rendered with such an unflinching eye for the epic poem's horrific and grotesque imagery as in the numerous illustrations Jim Agpalza has crafted for this edition. Here, presented in a bold style both modern and classical, are the nightmarish spectacles one might truly expect to encounter in the torturous nine circles of Hell. Agpalza's work is as disturbing as it is imaginative, and along with the crisp interior design makes this edition of the Inferno something to treasure. -JEFFREY THOMAS author of Punktown There is no greater undertaking for an artist than to guide us through Hell, and no better guide this side of Virgil than Jim Agpalza. Like his predecessor Gustave Dore, Jim has leveraged his peculiar genius for caricature into a transcendent vision of torment and suffering when we thought we'd seen it all. For his efforts, Dore was knighted and inducted into the Legion d'honneur at the end of his life. We should be ashamed to honor Jim Agpalza with anything less. -CODY GOODFELLOW author of Unamerica and Strategies Against Nature For people of a certain bent, that is, people like me, this stunning new edition of The Inferno, enriched by Jim Agpalza's gleefully lurid illustrations, is now the definitive edition of Dante's dark masterpiece. -MATTHEW M. BARTLETT author of Gateways to Abomination The man himself acted like God as a critic, consigning the Florentine artist Cimabue to Purgatory, supposedly for his arrogance, so Dore was fortunate not to be immortalized by Dante. Chiaroscuro was three hundred years in the future (and Dante didn't know how to time-travel), so I think Dante would have loved Mike Dubisch's gorgeous poster (it makes me think of Fruosino warping not only R. Crumb but Mad's Jack Davis with the Tibetan Cave murals of Chakrasamvara. Quite Boschian in recreational activities, this sings Dante in the palette of his time as a bonus. In contrast, Jim Agpalza's cover features one of the beasts so much more interesting than the face of God in Heaven, and lo! the beast is in that to-die-for blue Florentines like Dante so loved. The illustrations take as a starting block, Dore, and go beyond, to where only this superb artist can steal you off to. -ANNA TAMBOUR author of Death Goes to the Dogs

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Dante Alighieri was a poet, writer, and philosopher from Florence, Italy. His Divine Comedy is one of the essential poems in the Middle Ages and is widely considered one of the most significant literary works in all Italian literature. Jim Agpalza is an artist who resides in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, two kids, and two cats (one is a ghost). He spends most of his time making art, and in his spare time, he takes long walks on the beach and ends each walk with a cuddle with a boulder on the sand.

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