The Art of Circuitry

Incredible circuit board illustrations, all full-page, from the first volume of Kazuo Umezz’s manga My Name Is Shingo (1982–1986). A fairly common aspect of manga is to, after pages of sometimes casual and spare drawing, to be suddenly hit with a page or spread of intense detail, like cityscapes or nature scenes. Here the eye focuses on the detail inside a machine — a machine that is, at times, the story’s narrator. I worked in manga for a half decade, and moments like these thrill me to this day.