Guy Cowell’s ‘Delights’ Book Launch

Guy Colwell’s first full graphic novel in 33 years, and most ambitious one to date, sees one painter consider the struggles of another. The known details of “Hieronymus Bosch’s” life, and the commissioning of his enormous triptych “The Garden Of Earthly Delights,” are scant. Colwell takes the facts of the time and setting, and recreates a tale of a man and artist torn equally among piety, creativity, and commerce. Jheronimus van Aken is 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 as fatally corrupted by sensuality? What of the increasing numbers of young models needed to depict pre-apple innocence? Bosch must not only focus on creating his greatest painting but parry the inquisitor’s prying and skeptical questioning.

Guy Colwell is a painter whose social surrealist approach has been tainted by comic book art. Guy Colwell is a comic book artist whose stories have been tainted by unfunny social surrealism. Come see some of both with the release of this new graphic novel about a painter undertaking a troubling masterpiece.