| Gary Panter | |
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| Born | (1950-12-01)December 1, 1950 (age 74) Durant, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Artist |
| Pseudonym(s) | Gars Panter[1] |
Notable works | Jimbo Pee-wee's Playhouse set designs |
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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 ofArcade: The Comics Revue and the initiation ofRAW, one of the main instigators of Americanalternative comics.The Comics Journal has called Panter the "Greatest Living Cartoonist."[3]
Panter has published his work in various magazines and newspapers, includingTime andRolling Stone, and in notable comics anthologies such asRaw,BLAB!,Zero Zero,Anarchy Comics,Weirdo,Kramers Ergot, andYoung Lust. He has exhibited widely, and won twoDaytime Emmy Awards for his set designs forPee-wee's Playhouse.[4] His most notable works includeJimbo: Adventures in Paradise,Jimbo's Inferno, andFacetasm, the latter of which was created together withCharles Burns (and which won aFirecracker Alternative Book Award).[5]
Panter was born inDurant, Oklahoma, and grew up inBrownsville, Texas, andSulphur Springs, Texas.[6] He attendedEast Texas State University (now known asTexas A&M University-Commerce), where he studied underJack Unruh and Lee Baxter Davis, where he was one of "The Lizard Cult."[7]
As an early participant in the Los Angelespunk scene in the 1970s, Panter defined the grungy style of the era with his drawings for the punkfanzineSlash and numerous record covers.
Panter createdJimbo, his punkeveryman, in 1974.[8] Jimbo embodies elements ofJack Kirby andPicasso.[8] The character was a regular feature inSlash,Raw, and has been featured in his own comic book series and a number of graphic novels. Panter's good friendMatt Groening[9] said of Jimbo, "He and his friends are always up against systems of control... Jimbo is a wild combo-platter of brilliant drawing and stuff you didn’t know could be done with mere pen and ink."[8] (Groening has also admitted that Jimbo's spiky hairdo inspired the look ofBart Simpson.)[10]Jimbo in Purgatory (Fantagraphics, 2004) andJimbo's Inferno (Fantagraphics, 2006) are lavishly produced graphic novels that incorporate classic literature elements (most prominentlyDante'sDivine Comedy) with pop and punk culture sensibilities.Jimbo's Inferno was given anAmerican Book Award in 2007.[11]
In 1979,[12] Panter'sRozz Tox Manifesto was published in theRalph Records catalog, calling for artists to work within the capitalist system.[13] He also worked on, with Jay Cotton,Pee-Dog: The Shit Generation for theChurch of the SubGenius.
In the 1980s, he was the set designer forPee-wee's Playhouse, where he won twoDaytime Emmy Awards. Previously, children's shows had a more lulling aesthetic: everything was round, "cute", simplified, and pastel. The set ofPee-wee's Playhouse was the antithesis of pablum art: it was dense as a jungle and jam-packed with surprises, often loud and abrasive ones.
While doingillustration and set designs, Panter kept up an active career as acartoonist. His work in comics includes contributions to theavant-garde comics magazineRAW and thegraphic novelCola Madnes.
Panter also created the online seriesPink Donkey forCartoon Network.[14]
In 2008,PictureBox publishedGary Panter, a two-volume 700-page comprehensive overview of his work, including never-before-published sketches.
In 2010, the French publishing company United Dead Artists, founded byStéphane Blanquet, published two books on the work of Gary Panter:The Wrong Box[15] andThe Land Unknown.[16]
Warner Bros. Records commissioned Panter to paint the album covers for the unauthorized releases ofFrank Zappa's albumsStudio Tan (1978),Sleep Dirt andOrchestral Favorites (1979).
In 2006, one of Panter's paintings was used as the cover art forYo La Tengo's albumI Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass.
From 1978 to 1986, Panter was married to writer Nicole Panter, who was the manager of Los Angeles punk rock band theGerms. He later married art director Helene Silverman.[6]
Panter was influenced by, among others,Frank Zappa's art directorCal Schenkel.[17] His comics are fast and hard and are drawn in an expressionistic manner. His works balance the worlds of painting, commercial art, illustration, cartoons, alternative comix, and music.[18]
WithWinsor McCay,Lyonel Feininger,George Herriman,Elzie Segar,Frank King,Chester Gould,Milton Caniff,Charles Schulz,Will Eisner,Jack Kirby,Harvey Kurtzman,Robert Crumb,Art Spiegelman andChris Ware, Panter was among the artists honored in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at theJewish Museum in New York City, from September 16, 2006, to January 28, 2007.[19][20]
An exhibition of originals of Gary Panter's drawings and paintings was shown at thePhoenix Art Museum from April 21 through August 19, 2007. An exhibition of paintings was at the Dunn and Brown Contemporary Gallery in Dallas in October 2007.[21]
Panter was the recipient of the 2012Klein Award, which was given by theMuseum of Comic and Cartoon Art at their annualMoCCA Art Festival in New York.
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