Gary Panter

Gary Panter
Born (1950-12-01) December 1, 1950 (age 73)
Durant, Oklahoma, U.S.
Area(s)Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Pseudonym(s)Gars Panter[1]
Notable works
Jimbo
Pee-wee's Playhouse set designs
Awards
garypanter.com

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."[3]

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.[4] 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).[5]

  1. ^ Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise. Pantheon Books. 1988.
  2. ^ "Inkpot Awards". San Diego Comic-Con International. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
  3. ^ Seneca, Matt (October 24, 2011). "IN THE LAND UNKNOWN WITH GARY PANTER". FEATURES. The Comics Journal.
  4. ^ "Daytime Emmy Awards". IMDB.com. Retrieved June 3, 2024. 2 WINS & 3 NOMINATIONS
  5. ^ "Firecracker Alternative Book Awards". ReadersRead.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2009.