Tag: Gary Panter

Looking at the comics connections of the late Paul Reubens, a big change for the cartooning department at SVA and much more.

Gary Panter, Richard Sala, Anita Kunz...and more!

Catching up on what folks are talking about.

The art comix event of the year is free and has a bonus Cabaret on Sunday

The ALA's comics roundtable to the rescue; why I don't like Crumb and what is GRRM doing now, anyway?

While the art comix world is still reeling from the announcement of the closure of PictureBox, the innovative and fearless publisher that picked up the Highwater ball and ran with it, the end of...

I find Dash Shaw's work to be strangely invigorating. I admit I had some reservations when I first saw the daunting heft of his Bottomless Belly Button, with its absurdly extended passage of a man running and profusely sweating, drawn in a style so crunchy that it makes Gary Panter look slick. The idea that all we cartoonists must now draw books that are at least three inches thick and that take several years of deprivation to accomplish thanks to the efforts of obviously dedicated workhorses such as Shaw and Craig Thompson was not a pretty one. But I was eventually to resign myself to this new order.

Gary Panter has revamped his website, and of course this means hours of poring over comics, drawings, paintings and historical artifacts. Panter also has a few events coming up for you West Coasters.