gary panter Archives

Gary Panter attempts to invoke the unfolding lotus of the 1960s by thumbing through an old magazine missing pages – LOOK, Jan 9, 1968. Wednesday, October 22nd Desert Island Comics at 540 Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn, New York will host a Triple Release Party with Hazel Newlevant, Robyn Chapman, and Preston Spurlock  from 7 to 9PM They[...]

Most notable is Robert Crumb for his work on Fritz the Cat, which was popular in the hippie counterculture scene, and Gary Panter who defined the grungy style of the Los Angeles punk scene with his drawings for the punk fanzine Slash Magazine (62) Channel Zero, also published without the Comics Code Authority, creates a[...]

One of the special guests for Small Press Expo this year is Gary Panter, whose most recent book, Daltokyo, debuted at SPX last year, leading to plenty of fans walking around with the elongated green volume like some kind of military weaponry peeking out of their bags Panter's more than varied, and more than influential[...]

While the cover alone is an amalgamation of words and images, it's definitely legible and aesthetically pleasing. Dal Tokyo, designed by Gary Panter and Family Sohn (Fantagraphics) A very unconventional layout, the elongated pages of Dal Tokyo (16.25" x 6.25") fit the single comic strip format swimmingly with one standalone comic per page The Dal Tokyo title[...]

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool A different kind of comic con came to Chicago this past weekend as the University of Chicago hosted Comics: Philosophy and Practice, a three-day academic conference that hosted the biggest names in the history of alternative comics and graphic novels. The roster of guests is literally the Who's Who of[...]