Manga comics have never seen a talent that combines this level of formal ambition with such exquisitely drawn depictions of fashion, art and architecture. The other set of stories, 'Combats,' is one sequence after another of elegantly choreographed battles. Plot is pushed aside in favor of sheer formal verve as we watch buildings, about which we know nothing, come into being. Yokoyama seems to enjoy the resulting images as much for the strange shapes that are generated as for what they reveal.

One set of graphic stories, 'Public Works,' details massive structures being erected across a landscape. Yokoyama (Travel New Engineering) creates a visual landscape that is so imaginative and so dynamic that it sometimes looks as if. book on Yokoyama's work combines two of the artist's central themes: fighting and building. If the history of the world had turned out differently from what we know today, men would live according to different sets of values and different aesthetics It would be a civilization completely alien to ours.' This first U.S. the artist himself, Yokoyama broaches significant new terrain: color Color Engineering.

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