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Plus, he is a musician too! Gary Panter and Devin Flynn are performing live and signing in support of Gary Panter's Book, Gary Panter , and their soon to be released CD Devin and Gary Go Outside, coming soon on Ecstatic Yod Records. We won't have the CD available in time for the in-store but please check back soon...
 
On the day of the in-store you can pick up a copy of Gary's book, Gary Panter and receive the gift of a 12" x 15" extremely limited edition commemorative silkscreen poster designed by Devin Flynn & Gary Panter. These will be numbered and you can get them signed on the day of the event. Or you can purchase the silkscreen for $25.00. This offer is exclusively at Amoeba Berkeley, while supplies last.

Oklahoma-born illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician, Gary Panter is a child of the ’50s who blossomed in the full glare of the psychedelic ’60s and, after surviving underground during the ’70s, finally made his mark in the ’80s as head set designer for the successful kid/adult TV show Pee Wee’s Playhouse, a job which brought his jagged art and surreal cartoon ideas into the homes of America and bagged him three Emmy Awards. With Pee Wee, Panter created another world, a fantasy extension of his natural studio habitat which was constructed out of a collection of garbage and buried treasure. In the same way that Francis Bacon surrounded himself with images that inspired him to carve out his grotesques in oil paint, so Panter gathered around himself the rubble of his childhood to create Pee Wee and the host of lovable (yet strange) characters which inhabit his Playhouse.

Possibly the most influential graphic artist of his generation, a fact acknowledged by the Chrysler Design award he received in 2000, Gary Panter has been everything from an underground cartoonist to an interior designer (for a children's playroom inside the Philippe Starck-designed Paramount Hotel in New York) to an internet animator (his Pink Donkey and the Fly series can be seen online at Cartoon Network’s web site). He is also the creator of Jimbo,