Gary Panter
Gary Panter ( born December 1, 1950 in Durant, Oklahoma) is an American cartoonist and artist.
Life and work
Gary Panter was born the son of Mel Panter and grew up in Brownsville, Texas. Influenced by the paintings of his hobby indianischstämmigen father in his father's store and read one of the comic books acquired Panter in childhood a passion for the American visual culture.
His own breakthrough to drawing comics as well as his eruption from the Texas Christian fundamentalism accelerated the Underground Comix of the 1960s, such as Robert Crumb's work. In addition there were experiments with LSD in 1972. Until 1974 Panter studied art at East Texas State University. In the same year he also developed his later well -known comic character, Jimbo. The post-apocalyptic scenario, the Jimbo comics contains both Texas as well as Japanese elements, which may explain why early gathered a loyal fan base for Japanese Panter. Jimbo sequences published from 1977 regularly in Punk magazine " Slash " from LA, where Panter now lived. Quite accidentally took the artist at this time designing record covers of rock musician Frank Zappa. Closer connection to the contemporary music scene then offered the cooperation with the mysterious underground band The Residents.
Panters talent spoke to the U.S. East Coast around: he finally published in Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine and worked there full-size but rather referred to as " post-modern " with the creation of the New Wave era of the comic, the panther itself. In fact, mixing his work highly cultural styles, such as abstract expressionism and Art Brut, with designs and techniques from pop culture, such as 50s adult comics and cheap Japanese horror films. Panter was known for its " bitingly ragged lines ," his sudden change of style from image to image, and for a rarely reached in this genre expressivity.
In the 80s, Panter was responsible for the equipment of the Pee -wee Herman TV show and thus won three Emmys. As a graphic designer, he worked for the magazines Time, Rolling Stone and New York. He had a strong influence on the style of his friend and Simpsons creator Matt Groening.
For over a decade Panter is married to Helene Silverman, since 1985, he lives with his family in Brooklyn, where he was an eyewitness to the attack on the World Trade Center.
Panter is now regarded as "King of Punk Art" or " king of the grotesque ", some even as "probably the most influential graphic artist of his generation". Meanwhile, he engages in activities such as Jimbo in Purgatory (2004) or Jimbo 's Inferno (2006) also classics such as Dante, Boccaccio and Sophocles on.
Publications
- Jimbo 's Inferno, Seattle 2006 ISBN 1560976918
- Satiro -Plastic: The Sketchbook of Gary Panter, Montreal, 2005 ISBN 1896597866
- Jimbo in Purgatory, Seattle, 2004 ISBN 1560975725
- Cola Madness, New York 2001 ISBN 097016260X
- With Charles Burns: Facetasm, San Francisco 1997 ISBN 1889539058
- Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise, New York 1988 ISBN 0394756398