Gary Panter
1950–

Introduction

Gary Panter (born December 1, 1950) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. Panter's work is representative of the post-underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of Arcade: The Comics Revue and the initiation of RAW, one of the main instigators of American alternative comics. The Comics Journal has called Panter the "Greatest Living Cartoonist."

Panter has published his work in various magazines and newspapers, including Time and Rolling Stone, and in notable comics anthologies such as Raw, BLAB!, Zero Zero, Anarchy Comics, Weirdo, Kramers Ergot, and Young Lust. He has exhibited widely, and won two Daytime Emmy Awards for his set designs for Pee-wee's Playhouse. His most notable works include Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise, Jimbo's Inferno, and Facetasm, the latter of which was created together with Charles Burns (and which won a Firecracker Alternative Book Award).

Wikidata identifier

Q1351201

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Introduction

Panter is best known for his punk comic strip "Jimbo," but has worked in a variety of media and has exhibited as a painter. He has designed album covers and also has done design work for television, notably "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" in the 1980s, for which he won three Emmy awards.

Roles

Artist, cartoonist, graphic artist, illustrator, musician, painter, scenographer, sculptor

ULAN identifier

500125646

Names

Gary Panter

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