Now in stock: Xylor Jane’s first book – a collection of 28 incredible paintings with an essay by Trinie Dalton.
Ben Jones’ genius TV pilot, Neon Knome is now online for a limited time. Go watch it and then VOTE for it on the same page! Ben’s show is part of an Olympic-like death match over at Cartoon Network/Adult Swim.
A few hot L.A. items for you people out there. Ben Jones is currently in Burbank making a pilot episode of his very own animated program for a top flight cable channel! Pictures to follow. And Gary Panter, favorite dude of the city of angels, was featured in last week’s epic newsletter and here is an interview with Gars and an excellent video in which Mike Kelley and Matt Groening pay tribute. And Frank Santoro recently returned from a triumphant campaign across Gaul territory in support of the French edition of Storeyville. Finally, our own Comics Comics has gotten a gorgeous makeover by pals Mike Reddy and Ray Sohn. Thanks to all.
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“Few cartoonists of the moment are weirder or more original than Yuichi Yokoyama — his work obsessively diagrams architecture and design … TRAVEL is remarkably entertaining.” — Douglas Wolk, The New York Times Book Review
In Yuichi Yokoyama’s Travel, the storyline is as linear as it is sharp: it is the long, silent and crystalline description of a train ride undertaken by three men. The subject Yokoyama depicts here is less the landscape around the train (the distance covered, the regions travelled through) than the actions within the train itself. As the train moves, the three men walk through the string of cars and are confronted with the vehicle’s architecture, its machine-like environment. By above all, they are confronted with the stares and the physical presence of other passengers. Travel is a journey into the contemporary Japanese psyche – a brilliant, wordless graphic novel. Bookforum has written of Yokoyama: “Concerned with phenomena rather than character and narrative, his comics resemble the output of a drafting machine: sequences that present multiple views of an object in action and look like exploded product diagrams. Yokoyama seems to enjoy the resulting images as much for the strange shapes that are generated as for what they reveal.”
This edition features an introduction by cartoonist and historian Paul Karasik and commentary by the author.
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