Dal Tokyo - INSCRIBED with Drawing by Panter
Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2012. Gary Panter. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Pp. 137. Introduction by Max Watson. Illustrated throughout with black & white comics by Panter, along with eight pages of maps on plastic-coated paper. Decorative endpapers. Bound in green cloth with titles printed on spine and titles & two-color Panter illustrations by Gary Panter printed on cover. Light edge-wear to cloth; price-decal shadow on rear board. Price decal laid in. Inscribed in ink by Panter on the copyright page, featuring a drawing of a broken tractor: "For -- -- from Gary Panter" Item #7633
Presented in an oversize format, 16.25" x 6.5", thought to be absurd until one realizes it matches a comix format. Dal Tokyo, which first ran in The LA Reader in the early '80s, envisions a future Mars that is inhabited by Texan and Japanese settlers. The "Dal" is short for Dallas.
Price: $650.00