Don’t Do Drugs - Unless You Feel Like It Drawing

Michael Panteli is a cartoonist and graphic illustrator who cut his teeth working for early 90s UK cult comics Zit and Smut. His Illustration work includes a comicbook series 'Joe Headstock' for www.fender.com, which gained an international following. He has designed various theatre posters and has also worked on several music projects, including album and merchandising artwork for the accomplished singer/guitarist/songwriter Nile Marr, son of Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. Michael Panteli is also a long- time collaborator with once of his key influencers - underground comic book artist Robert Crumb. They started corresponding by mail in 2001 and have been pen friends ever since, working together on several artworks. His influences include golden age ('pre-code') comics of the 30s, 40s and early 50s, art deco and art nouveau advertising, WWI and WWII propaganda posters and the underground comics scene of the late 60s and early 70s particularly the works of Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton.