Jimbo #5 [NM-] by Gary Panter (Set Designer Pee-Wee's Playhouse) Zongo Comics

Jimbo #5 [NM-] by Gary Panter (Set Designer Pee-Wee's Playhouse) Zongo Comics

You may not have heard of Gary Panter, but chances are you've seen his work somewhere.  Just by way of a for instance, if you're a Frank Zappa fan and own the records Studio Tan and/or Sleep Dirt, well, Panter did the covers for those.  His paintings also grace the covers of albums by Yo La Tengo and Red Hot Chili Peppers.   You might have seen his now-iconic logo for the American punk band The Screamers, which now shows up on street graffiti the world over.  Perhaps you've run across his pug-nosed doofus-with-a-heart character Jimbo, either gracing the pages of Slash, legendary magazine of the L.A. punk-rock scene, or appearing in Panter's re-worked version of Dante's Inferno.  Or, you may have read some of his comics in Art Spiegelman's RAW magazine.

Or maybe, just maybe, you used to watch a little television show called Pee Wee's Playhouse, starring one Pee Wee Herman, bow-tied man-child who inhabits a goofy, Mister-Rogers-on-acid world peopled by talking furniture like Chairy (a doe-eyed overstuffed chair that gives hugs), Clockey ("D'you know what time it is?"), and Globey (who spoke with a French accent, and was, incidentally, a globe.)  And who was the uninhibited genius, tuned into Paul Reubens' goofy aesthetic, who designed the sets for the wacky world of Pee Wee?  None other than Gary Panter, who, along the way, picked up three Emmys for his trouble.

(Taken from https://ineedartandcoffee.blogspot.com/2016/06/gary-panter-from-punk-rock-to-pee.html)