DAL TOKYO

Gary Panter began imagining Dal Tokyo, a future Mars that is terraformed by Texan and Japanese workers, as far back as 1972, appropr iating a friends 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 t hat the broken tractor out back was a car of the future. Japanese, Ill say, because of the exotic far-awayness of Japan from Texas, and because of ...[Read more]