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Don Ivan Punchatz

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Punchatz was born in Arlington, Texas. In 1970, he started the SketchPad Studio there, where he trained dozens of apprentices (known as "the elves") and came to be known as the "Godfather of Dallas Illustration." During 1993, id Software hired him to create the Doom video game package art and logo. The result was named the second best video game box art of all time by GameSpy. His son, Gregor Punchatz, has worked on special effects for several films, and also created monster sculptures for Doom.

Punchatz suffered a cardiac arrest on October 11, 2009 and died in an Arlington hospital on October 22, 2009.

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