DAL TOKYO - Tapa dura

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

Dal Tokyo was a monthly comic strip, drawn in Panter’s groundbreaking “ratty line,” about a future Mars that is terra-formed by Texan and Japanese workers. In 1983 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 installments for over a decade.