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Born 1950 Oklahoma. Known for: Abstract painting, comics, posters, sketch books, punk graphics.
When a Comic Book Hillbilly and Milton Collide. By Dana Jennings, July 21, 2017, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Gary Panter is a painter first. But he’s still probably best known for the... Read full biography
When a Comic Book Hillbilly and Milton Collide. By Dana Jennings, July 21, 2017, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Gary Panter is a painter first. But he’s still probably best known for the wild and woolly comics he started scrawling back in the late 1970s and early ’80s for the likes of... Read full biography
When a Comic Book Hillbilly and Milton Collide. By Dana Jennings, July 21, 2017, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Gary Panter is a painter first. But he’s still probably best known for the wild and woolly comics he started scrawling back in the late 1970s and early ’80s for the likes of the Los Angeles punk zine Slash, and Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman’s Raw magazine. The Comics Journal has even called him “the greatest living cartoonist.”. Now, 11 years after his last graphic... Read full biography
When a Comic Book Hillbilly and Milton Collide. By Dana Jennings, July 21, 2017, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Gary Panter is a painter first. But he’s still probably best known for the wild and woolly comics he started scrawling back in the late 1970s and early ’80s for the likes of the Los Angeles punk zine Slash, and Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman’s Raw magazine. The Comics Journal has even called him “the greatest living cartoonist.”. Now, 11 years after his last graphic novel, Jimbo’s Inferno, he’s returned to the medium with a striking phantasmagoria of a book, Songy of Paradise, which retells Milton’s Paradise Regained via the hillbilly of the title. You could even call it “Snuffy Smith Meets Satan.”. So, why comics... Read full biography
When a Comic Book Hillbilly and Milton Collide. By Dana Jennings, July 21, 2017, The New York Times, Art & Design Section. Gary Panter is a painter first. But he’s still probably best known for the wild and woolly comics he started scrawling back in the late 1970s and early ’80s for the likes of the Los Angeles punk zine Slash, and Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman’s Raw magazine. The Comics Journal has even called him “the greatest living cartoonist.”. Now, 11 years after his last graphic novel, Jimbo’s Inferno, he’s returned to the medium with a striking phantasmagoria of a book, Songy of Paradise, which retells Milton’s Paradise Regained via the hillbilly of the title. You could even call it “Snuffy Smith Meets Satan.”. So, why comics again? “I really like tapping into the emotions and telling a story,” Mr. Pant... Read full biography
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When a Comic Book Hillbilly and Milton Collide
By Dana Jennings, July 21, 2017, The New York Times, Art & Design Section
Gary Panter is a painter first. But he’s still probably best known for the wild and woolly comics he started scrawling back in the late 1970s and early ’80s for the likes of the Los Angeles punk zine Slash, and Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman’s Raw magazine. The Comics Journal has even called him “the greatest living cartoonist.”
Now, 11 years after his last graphic novel, Jimbo’s Inferno, he’s returned to the medium with a striking phantasmagoria of a book, Songy of Paradise, which retells Milton’s Paradise Regained via the hillbilly of the title. Y...But wait, there's more...
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