Panda Paco

Panda Paco, also known as Parinton (born January 19), is a Mexican furry artist, fursuiter and event promoter who lives in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

Fandom involvement
Paco has been a panda since he was nine, discovering the furry fandom on August 3, 2008.

Paco was a Guest of Honor at Megaplex 2018 with Kyle McCarthy (NIIC the Singing Dog), helping the charity with a Livestream event and donating several traditional paintings, which were auctioned. He is also one of the promoters of Confuror, and has created poster and website art for it.

Fursona
Paco's fursona is a giant panda.

Fursuit
Paco made his own fursuit of his character Parinton Panda in 2011. He's no longer creating fursuits, since he's completely concentrated on making art. He's persistent in embodying his character during his performance.

Conventions attendance

 * Anthro Northwest - 2018, 2019
 * Anthrocon - 2015, 2016 ,2017
 * Biggest Little Fur Con - 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
 * Confuror - 2017 (as "Furs in Space"), 2018, 2019
 * Fur-Eh! - 2019
 * Furnal Equinox - 2017, 2018, 2019
 * Further Confusion - 2018, 2020
 * Furrnion - 2018
 * IndyFurCon - 2019
 * Megaplex - 2018(*), 2019
 * NordicFuzzCon - 2019, 2020
 * Midwest FurFest - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
 * Texas Furry Fiesta - 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

(*) Guest of Honor

Art
Paco is best known for his art. His style resembles children's book illustrations, with scenes that are characteristically colorful and cheerful.

Webcomic
Paco writes and draws Art & Biro, a webcomic originally in Spanish that has been translated into English, Ukrainian, Portuguese, German, Italian and French "about the friendship between a Raccoon and a Fox".

YouTube Channel
Paco is creating content on YouTube related to art in fursuit, showing time-lapse processes and drawing challenges.

Media

 * Guest on Bearly Furcasting feat. Taebyn