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Dal Tokyo

by Gary Panter
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Dal Tokyo
Dal Tokyo

Mars terraforming saga: Texan-Japanese cultural fusion.

"Dal Tokyo" isn't just a comic; it's a visual and linguistic odyssey. Gary Panter stretches the imagination with a world where Texas meets Japan on a terraformed Mars. The artwork's raw energy and the dialogue’s playful complexity offer a unique experience for those who love thematic depth wrapped in the visually unconventional. If whimsy, satire, and avant-garde storytelling are your pleasure, let Panter's creation take you on an interstellar cultural trip.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Dal Tokyo

by Gary Panter
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ISBN: 9781560978862
Authors: Gary Panter
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Date of Publication: 2012-09-11
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Science Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comics/Manga
Related Topics: Speculative Fiction, Graphic Novels
Goodreads rating: 3.62
(rated by 115 readers)

Description

Gary Panter began imagining Dal Tokyo, a future Mars that is terraformed by Texan and Japanese workers, as far back as 1972, appropriating a friend’s idea about “cultural and temporal collision” (The “Dal” is short for Dallas). Why Texan and Japanese? Panter says, “Because they are trapped in Texas, Texans are self-mythologizing. Because I was trapped in Texas at the time, I needed to believe that the broken tractor out back was a car of the future. Japanese, I’ll say, because of the exotic far-awayness of Japan from Texas, and because of the Japanese monster movies and woodblock prints that reached out to me in Texas. Japanese monster movies are part of the fabric of Texas.” In 1983, Panter finally got a chance to fully explore this world, and share it with an audience, when the L.A. Reader published the first 63 strips. A few years later, the Japanese reggae magazine Riddim picked up the strip, and Panter continued the saga of Dal Tokyo in monthly installments for over a decade. But none of these conceptual descriptions will prepare the reader for the confounding visual and verbal richness of Dal Tokyo, as Panter’s famous “ratty line” collides and colludes with near-Joycean wordplay, veering from more or less intelligible jokes to dizzying non-sequiturs to surreal eruptions that can engulf the entire panel in scribbles. One doesn't read Dal Tokyo; one is absorbed into it and spit out the other side.
 

Mars terraforming saga: Texan-Japanese cultural fusion.

"Dal Tokyo" isn't just a comic; it's a visual and linguistic odyssey. Gary Panter stretches the imagination with a world where Texas meets Japan on a terraformed Mars. The artwork's raw energy and the dialogue’s playful complexity offer a unique experience for those who love thematic depth wrapped in the visually unconventional. If whimsy, satire, and avant-garde storytelling are your pleasure, let Panter's creation take you on an interstellar cultural trip.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.