Gary Panter

Gary Panter was born on December 1, 1950, in the United States. He is best known as a cartoonist, illustrator, painter, designer, and occasional musician, and is widely regarded as a central figure in the post-underground, new wave comics movement that emerged after the end of *Arcade: The Comics Revue* and the launch of *RAW*, a key incubator for American alternative comics. *The Comics Journal* has called him the "Greatest Living Cartoonist." Panter’s work appeared in *Time*, *Rolling Stone*, and anthologies such as *RAW*, *BLAB!*, *Zero Zero*, *Anarchy Comics*, *Weirdo*, *Kramers Ergot*, and *Young Lust*. His signature creations include *Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise*, *Jimbo’s Inferno*, and *Facetasm*, the latter co-created with Charles Burns, which won a Firecracker Alternative Book Award. He also won two Daytime Emmy Awards for his set designs on *Pee-wee’s Playhouse*. In our catalog, he is credited as artist, colorist, inker, letterer, and writer on 19 issues from 1979 to 2022, with most credits on *Jimbo*, *Dal Tokyo*, *Raw One-Shot*, *Crashpad*, *Okupant X*, and *Omega: The Unknown*. Panter has exhibited widely and continues to influence comics and design.