Gary Panter has published his work in various magazines and newspapers, including Raw, Time and Rolling Stone magazine.
10 Facts About Gary Panter
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Gary Panter has exhibited widely, and won three Emmy awards for his set designs for Pee-wee's Playhouse.
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Gary Panter created the online series Pink Donkey for Cartoon Network.
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Gary Panter published Jimbo in Purgatory, and Jimbo's Inferno with Fantagraphics Books, lavishly produced graphic novels which incorporate classic literature elements with pop and punk culture sensibilities.
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In 2006, one of Gary Panter's paintings was used as the cover art for Yo La Tengo's album I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass.
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From 1978 to 1986, Gary Panter was married to writer Nicole Gary Panter, who was the manager of the notorious Los Angeles punk rock band the Germs.
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Gary Panter was influenced by, among others, Frank Zappa's art director Cal Schenkel.
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Gary Panter's comics are fast and hard and are drawn in an expressionistic manner.
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Gary Panter undertakes all of his projects with imaginative punk flair.
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Gary Panter was the recipient of the 2012 Klein Award, which is given by the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art at their annual MoCCA Art Festival in New York.