Dal Tokyo- - Couverture rigide

Panter, Gary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1560978864 ISBN 13 : 9781560978862

Editeur : Fantagraphics Books, 2012

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

The William Blake of comics; a true poet who sees and feels what the rest of us can't, and he's done more to expand the power of drawing in the medium than probably anyone else alive. --The Times

Considered one of the only true punk cartoonists, Gary Panter is a tremendously influential underground cartoonist best known for a ragged, aggressive line and the wildly imaginative formal experimentation in his Jimbo graphic novels. --Publishers Weekly

Newly reprinted, Dal Tokyo collects Gary Panter's ambitious and long-running comic strip, putting the author's considerable artistic versatility and punk sensibilities on display. --Critical Mob

One of the single most influential underground American cartoonists of all time. ----The Quietus

Newly reprinted, Dal Tokyo collects Gary Panter's ambitious and long-running comic strip, putting the author's considerable artistic versatility and punk sensibilities on display. --Critical Mob

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Dal Tokyo is a future Mars that is terra-formed by Texan and Japanese workers. Panter shared his Dal Tokyo comic strips in monthly instalments with an audience in L.A. Reader and Riddim for over a decade. Only previously released in a now out of print, incomplete French version, Fantagraphic's edition, with its idiosyncratic size (only six inches tall but nearly three feet wide) offers the perfect framework to appreciate this long-awaited book from one of today's masters of the comic-strip form.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1560978864
• ISBN 13: 9781560978862
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 212