Description
Patience is a psychedelic science-fiction love story
the seminal mid- to late-20th century literary crime writer
Valiant meets his bride-to-be face-to-face
earning him the moniker "Air
My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the American Splendor film)
Dal Tokyo Product Form:Hardback Patience is a psychedelic science-fictionPanter's long running punk sci fi strip finally collected in one giant volume. 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,