Gary Panter is an illustrator, painter, designer, part-time musician, and possibly the most influential graphic artist of his generaton, a fact acknowledged by the Chrysler Design Award he received in 2000. Panter made his mark in the '80s as head set designer for the successful kid/adult show Pee Wee's Playhouse, a job that brought his jagged art and surreal cartoon ideas into the homes of America and bagged him three Emmy Awards. He is also the creator of Jimbo, a post-nuclear punk-rock cartoon character whose adventures were first chronicled as a comic strip in the '70s LA hardcore-punk paper Slash, and later in Raw magazine. As an illustrator, Panter never worries about graphic perfection, pushing the underground punk attitude he has always nurtured into his commercial art for established magazines such as Time, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and The New Yorker.
Gary Panter is an illustrator, painter, designer, part-time musician, and possibly the most influential graphic artist of his generaton, a fact acknowledged by the Chrysler Design Award he received in 2000. Panter made his mark in the '80s as head set designer for the successful kid/adult show Pee Wee's Playhouse, a job that brought his jagged art and surreal cartoon ideas into the homes of America and bagged him three Emmy Awards. He is also the creator of Jimbo, a post-nuclear punk-rock cartoon character whose adventures were first chronicled as a comic strip in the '70s LA hardcore-punk paper Slash, and later in Raw magazine. As an illustrator, Panter never worries about graphic perfection, pushing the underground punk attitude he has always nurtured into his commercial art for established magazines such as Time, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and The New Yorker.