Check out Jeremy Hight's interview with Gary Panter in this issue of Unlikely Stories: Episode IV!
Gary Panter, painter, cartoonist and designer, was born in 1950 in Durant, Oklahoma and grew up in Texas. He attended public schools in Brownsville and Sulphur Spring, Texas. He studied painting at East Texas State University in Commerce, Texas from 1969-74. Currently he lives in Brooklyn with his wife Helene Silverman and daughter Olive Panter. He is represented by Fredericks ad Freiser Gallery in New York and teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He won three Emmy awards and was nominated for five for production design for Pee Wee's Playhouse, was awarded a Chrysler Design Award in 2000, and is a fellow of the Cullman Center For Scholars and Writers in New York. He is in a psychedelic rock band called Devin Gary & Ross and collaborates on lights shows with Joshua White.