{"product_id":"books-eugene-atget-by-eugene-atget","title":"Eugene Atget","description":"\u003cp\u003eGary Panter began imagining \u003ci\u003eDal Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e, 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1983, Panter finally got a chance to fully explore this world, and share it with an audience, when the \u003ci\u003eL.A. Reader\u003c\/i\u003e published the first 63 strips. A few years later, the Japanese reggae magazine \u003ci\u003eRiddim\u003c\/i\u003e picked up the strip, and Panter continued the saga of \u003ci\u003eDal Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e in monthly installments for over a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut none of these conceptual descriptions will prepare the reader for the confounding visual and verbal richness of \u003ci\u003eDal Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eDal Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e; one is absorbed into it and spit out the other side.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53671487734033,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780893817503.jpg?v=1781516271","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-eugene-atget-by-eugene-atget","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}