Gary Panter vs. M.Brinkman

But as a long long longtime Panter fan, I'm gonna assume Gary Panter. I'm not as positive about his music, but I've bought 3 copies of the Italian Sunglass Movie 7" on Ralph for the fold-out poster alone, one of which is proudly mounted and hung on my wall above my records. I also have a Jimbo T-Shirt my mother bought for me when I was 14, but sadly it's not fitting so well anymore.

as for panter music, i like the "Precambrian Bath" 7" he did with Rick Potts that came with Invasion Of The Elvis Zombies.

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are you sure?

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not to mention he designed Pee-Wee's Playhouse

anywho, he did lots of work for the Residents and Ralph Records, as well as a few Zappa covers that Frank apparently hated. The first piece is the Screamers logo, he was heavily involved in the west coast punk scene. His wife managed the Germs at some point.

But he designed much of the look of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, the furniture, the characters etc.

He lives in Williamsburg now, I think. Tunde from TV on the Radio is a comics artists/fan and told me some story that he was walking down the street and saw some guy on a stoop and was like "aren't you Gary Panter?" and he was invited in and they ended up smoking pot and talking about comic books and stuff.

When I was a younger Nite Flight would show, as part of their "Atomic TV", the video for True Men Don't Kill Coyotes and it was just the weirdest, coolest thing I'd ever seen or heard. I got the record and didn't much care for the rest of it, or really much else they ever did. I'm gonna go download that song and see how it stands up in an act of nostalgia.

Blood Sugar Sex Magic is their best album, the only one I still own (although I'd probably be inclined to pick up Freaky Stylee if I found a copy for a couple bucks.) It's got that great 1970s in-the-same-room Rick Rubin sound and the band were at their tightest and swingingest. Frusciante's playing outstanding. More rock than funk.

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I learned about him because on an episode of MTV News, Kurt Loder held up a copy of the Agony book and it looked cool. I have tons of his stuff, including the recent Chip Kidd collection of all of the Amy and Jordan strips.

Highwater Books is honored to present the first major book from cartoonist/musician Mat Brinkman, a founding member of the Fort Thunder art collective. A widely influential creator frequently compared to the legendary punk cartoonist and gallery painter Gary Panter,

I will check it out and pass my judgement. At the very least, even if Brinkman's book is really great, credit should be due to Panter for doing it 20 years earlier. And I haven't seen the Jimbo in Purgatory collection, but haven't liked Panter's art as much now as then. Perhaps it's because he's drawing for a different size(the standard comic) but there's a quality in Jimbo's Adventure's in Paradise that I found lacking in the Jimbo comic books.

your little image up there ain't doin it justice.

i think it's bigger than the quimbys.
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