Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch [Hardcover]

In Guy Colwells first full graphic novel in over 30 years, we see one painter, Colwell himself, consider another, Hieronymus Bosch, and the story behind the latters most notable work told in sequential panels. The known details of Boschs life, and the commissioning of his enormous triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, are scant. Colwell takes the facts of Boschs time and setting and constructs a tale of a man and artist torn equally among piety, creativity, and commerce.In this imaginatively conceived historical graphic novel, Guy Colwell explores the story behind Hieronymus Bosch and his most famous work. Painter and underground cartoonist Colwell turns the commissioning of? An enlightening consideration of Bosch facing torments not far removed whats depicted in his painting. Colwell depicts an anguished craftsman being prodded beyond his comfort zone to create a work of genius, and his informed interpretation has a strength of its own. Its hard to think of a better pairing between artist and subject than Guy Colwells new book, A masterclass in cartooning. Colwell tells a completely fictional account of how [Bosch's] weird and wonderful masterpiece This book really engaged me, and really sold me, on the story of how Bosch's painting got made.