Don Ivan Punchatz
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1936 – 2009
Who was Don Ivan Punchatz?
Don Ivan Punchatz was a science fiction and fantasy artist who drew illustrations for numerous books and publications, including magazines such as Heavy Metal, National Geographic, Playboy, and Time. He illustrated album covers, and provided the cover art for session guitarist Steve Hunter's debut solo album, Swept Away.
During 1993, id Software hired him to create the Doom video game package art and logo. The result was named the second best game box art of all time by GameSpy. His son, Gregor Punchatz, has worked on special effects for several movies, and also created monster sculptures for Doom.
Punchatz suffered a cardiac arrest on October 11, 2009 and died in an Arlington, Texas, hospital on October 22, 2009.
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- Born
- Sep 8, 1936
United States of America - Children
- Education
- School of Visual Arts
- Died
- Oct 22, 2009
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on July 23, 2013
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