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Yuichi Yokoyama: New Engineering
Yuichi Yokoyama makes comics in a unique language situated somewhere between the primal drives of William Blake and the elegant geometries of Sol Lewitt--they are works of philosophical complexity and stunning visual power, of which he has said, "I'm not trying to write stories that are set in the future, but rather to write stories which are delivered from references...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
November 1st 2007
by Picture Box, Inc.
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A visão que Yokoyama tem de seu trabalhos com os quadrinhos é a de um artista plástico em busca de uma nova linguagem sequencial, livre de concessões humanistas. Isso tanto na sua abordagem gráfica, sempre de ângulos inusitados e sem muita profundidade, quanto na escolha dos protagonistas de suas não-narrativas: construções, salas modelo, livros esvoaçando sendo fatiados em meio a lutas de espadas, entre outras esquisitices e desconstruções.
"New Engineering" é uma coletânea d...more
"New Engineering" é uma coletânea d...more
Yokoyama's illustrations are completely fantastic (particularly the architectural structures), but many of the strips are almost totally obscured by large lettered sound effects, which I found particularly annoying.
If this consisted exclusively of the "Engineering" stories this would probably get a five, but aside from being bogged down by overly-large sound effect lettering, the fighting stories in here are also boring & not all that dynamic to "read." I appreci...more
If this consisted exclusively of the "Engineering" stories this would probably get a five, but aside from being bogged down by overly-large sound effect lettering, the fighting stories in here are also boring & not all that dynamic to "read." I appreci...more
It makes total sense that Yokoyama, in the interview in the back of this book, states that he wasn't interested in comics exactly, he just found that he needed to explore what had happened before and after particular of his paintings. Which then caused them to swell into these odd abstracted narratives. As observed elsewhere, the Engineering stories are his meticulous, inhumanly architectural best, while the "action" stories are interesting explorations of types of motion and deconstru...more
I bought New Engineering because I was going to read Garden but I read it first. I like the characters since they look more or less completely insane. Not that it matters since there isn't really any plot. It's more of a ballet of mechanization with acrobatic killers with action lines and forced perspectives taken to the extreme.
This is where I want to talk about Seijun Suzuki and how Japanese love technology and like dressing up but I think it's better you read the book and see how ...more
This is where I want to talk about Seijun Suzuki and how Japanese love technology and like dressing up but I think it's better you read the book and see how ...more
Yokoyama is pushing the realms of comics, much like many of his brethren published by Picture Box. Utterly formal, deeply strange, these comics are largely collection of abstract sounds and blocky images tearing through a massive alien landscapes.
Pure formalism- aliens fight for unkown reasons, structures built for a mysterious purpose. usually exactly my kind of comic, but I can only give this a middling review. Probably my fault more than the artist, but I found in many of the stories that the basic elements needed to make a comic readable, like coherant action within a panel, or a smooth panel-to-panel transition, missing or severely lacking. And since I am not Japanese, the elaborately drawn sound effects that sometimes dominated in...more
The illustrations were cool. The book reads from right to left, as does most manga, but inexplicably the introduction is printed at the back (what would be the front if it were a typical book). I read through the whole thing and was completely confused. If I had read the introduction I would have had the right frame of mind – Yokoyama apparently creates "serial images" that are as divorced from human emotions as possible; a temporal painting of sorts. Sounds cool… I wish that is how I ...more
Not so much "read" as "absorbed"...
There doesn't seem to be a point to most of these "stories". Some people fight, things fall from the sky, and other things grow. Still, the pictures are awesome...really awesome. I took it out of the library for the cover alone. It brought me back to when I was 8, or 9 and would stare at the action figures in the Berenstain Bear's Bad Dream book.
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