10 Facts About Gary Shipman

Gary Lee Shipman was born on March 16,1966 and is an American artist, comic book illustrator and writer of Pakkins' Land.

Shipman, with wife Rhoda Shipman, first created the independently produced comic book series Pakkins' Land in 1995, both plotting out the stories together and Gary scripting, lettering, penciling, and inking the illustrations for the series.

Gary Shipman has dyslexia and has shared about coping with it, at times, on his YouTube live streams.

In 2018, Gary Shipman started a Patreon account and began regularly live streaming drawing sessions on his YouTube channel where he chats and interacts with fans from around the world.

In 2011, Gary Shipman was invited to join the DreamWorks Animation Fine Art program, with his first offering being an interpretative piece based on How to Train Your Dragon, made available as the original painting or as prints.

In 2012, Gary Shipman was one of 80 different contributing writers and artists from around the globe for the third and final book in the Fables for Japan digital anthology to benefit the victims of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Also in 2014, Gary Shipman was a contributing artist for the Adventure Time trading cards set produced by Cryptozoic Entertainment.

In 2014, Gary Shipman started to see his artwork distributed by art distributor Acme Archives, doing licensed pieces in his distinctive style from Disney, Marvel Entertainment, and Lucasfilm.

In 2015, Gary Shipman illustrated a label for the Rot Berry flavor of Deadworld Zombie Soda, and the associated trading card series.

In 2018, Gary Shipman was a contributing artist to the Rick and Morty trading cards season 1 set produced by Cryptozoic Entertainment.