About Gary Panter
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). == Early life and education == Panter was born in Durant, Oklahoma, and grew up in Brownsville, Texas, and Sulphur Springs, Texas. He attended East Texas State University, where he studied under Jack Unruh and Lee Baxter Davis, and became part of the group of artists known as "The Lizard Cult." == Career == === Early work and punk scene === As an early participant in the Los Angeles punk scene in the 1970s, Panter drew for the punk fanzine Slash and designed numerous record covers. === Jimbo and comics === Panter created Jimbo, his punk everyman, in 1974. Jimbo embodies elements of Jack Kirby and Picasso.
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