Gary Panter, he's an amazing commercial artist who also created the characters, Jimbo, in his comic book,
Jimbo, Adventures in Paradise. If you watched Pee Wee's Playhouse when you were a kid, then you would be familiar with his set designs for that show. I had the pleasure of getting a luncheon with him with a group of my buddies when he came to Indiana University for a lecture in 2009. He's hilarious and I sadly did not have a book for him to sign, I should of totally brought my sketchbook because he drew, Jimbo, on someone else's. He also had worked with Charles Burns, and commented that he is one of the best inkers in the comic world. I got excited to hear this because I love Charles Burns' graphic novel,
Black Hole.
Black Hole has beautifully inked illustrations and the graphic novel's context is very grotesque and interesting. It's basically about a town with a crazy type of std epidemic among the teenagers. I recommend you to try reading it and you probably don't know it, but you love comics. I got so many friends into reading comics or back into reading comics, it's definitely not a medium only for kids.
Gary Panter, he's an amazing commercial artist who also created the characters, Jimbo, in his comic book, Jimbo, Adventures in Paradise. If you watched Pee Wee's Playhouse when you were a kid, then you would be familiar with his set designs for that show. I had the pleasure of getting a luncheon with him with a group of my buddies when he came to Indiana University for a lecture in 2009. He's hilarious and I sadly did not have a book for him to sign, I should of totally brought my sketchbook because he drew, Jimbo, on someone else's. He also had worked with Charles Burns, and commented that he is one of the best inkers in the comic world. I got excited to hear this because I love Charles Burns' graphic novel, Black Hole.
Black Hole has beautifully inked illustrations and the graphic novel's context is very grotesque and interesting. It's basically about a town with a crazy type of std epidemic among the teenagers. I recommend you to try reading it and you probably don't know it, but you love comics. I got so many friends into reading comics or back into reading comics, it's definitely not a medium only for kids.
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