The ever boundary-pushing Breakdown press have news of two new releases currently offered for pre-order. inspect out an development look at both Yokoyama Yuichi’s infant flourish as well as Jonathan Chandler’s John’s Worth.
BABY BOOM
by Yokoyama Yuichi
Paperback 148 x 210 mm, 184 pages, balance out printed, softcover
£26.99
Baby flourish is the current in Breakdown Press’s line of English language editions of work by prominent Japanese artist Yokoyama Yuichi.
Yokoyama’s comics are completely unique: complimentary from the standard modes of narrative, his work explores motion, noise as well as structure, generating striking, beautifully graphic stories that propel the visitor into a world of onomatopoeia, speed, as well as visual noise.
Collecting 39 short pieces, each drawn with bright markers, infant flourish utilizes polychromy in symbolic as well as rhythmic methods to produce a musical, visually amazing experience.
With a cover style by Jean-Philippe Bretin, an essay by manga academic Ryan Holmberg, as well as an interview with Yokoyama himself, this new English language edition, masterfully printed utilizing Pantone area colours, brings together Yokoyama’s a lot of ground-breaking work to date.
“Baby flourish is a book about exactly how the world is a gorgeous place, exactly how living in it can be a extremely terrific thing,
and exactly how the existence of others is what keeps happiness to life in us.” Matt Seneca, The Comics Journal
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About the Author:
Yokoyama Yuichi was born in Miyazaki, Japan in 1967.
In the late nineties he completed a B.F.A . at Musashino Art university with a major in oil painting, however in 2000 he shifted his method to manga, describing that the medium enabled him to “draw time.” His manga are understood as Neo-Manga as well as are characterised by the utilize of sharp lines, onomatopoeia as well as the depiction of the uninterrupted flow of time.
JOHN’S WORTH
by Jonathan Chandler
144 x 191mm, 260 pages, balance out printed, softcover
£19.99
From the mind of Jonathan Chandler, Britain’s master of mental horror, comes John’s Worth, the total collection of his psycho-sexual, bio-horror noir.
The titular John returns to private life after a long excursion in uniform battling techno-terrorists in a foreign land nobody back house has heard of, much less cares about. He discovers his homeland twisted beyond recognition: a destitute country, unclean with crime, gambling, prostitution as well as car loan sharks. into this pitiable as well as corrupt land, a new narcotic has arrived; a bizarre medication that takes the type of a hideous living organism.
Set in a hallucinatory desert-like landscape, this unsettling tale of mutation as well as deceit is a page-turning, cinematic experience, injected into your brain by means of Chandler’s jagged lines as well as punchy dialogue.
“I don’t believe I want to online on the planets where Chandler’s stories take place, however as a spectator I never want them to end.” Benjamin Marra
“I have no concept exactly how to explain Jonathan Chandler as well as neither does he… he’s an artist trying to get something out, something that won’t let go of him up until he does.” Hayley Campbell, The Comics Journal
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About the Author
Jon Chandler, thought about by some to be Britain’s a lot of isolated cartoonist, lives as well as works in a little town on the Suffolk coast. He graduated from film institution in 1999 as well as ended up being an partner of Famicon Art Collective, working with artists Leomi Sadler, Stefan Sadler as well as Kitty Clark. together with his previous works for Breakdown Press, one more Blue world (2016) as well as wet shape in the Dark (2019), he has likewise been published by Fantagraphics as well as Picturebox.