In Garden, a phalanx of men pass through a modern sculpture park-cum-obstacle course – reminiscent of that television show Takeshi’s Castle – playing recklessly with its objects, leading ultimately to the park’s destruction. In Travel, three men ride in one of the icons of Japan as technological and administrative master of space and timetables – the high-speed Bullet Train – consuming landscape from the comfort of their padded seats en route to a seaside getaway. In New Engineering, there is the construction of various sorts of landforms and public works projects mainly for recreational use.

If you put the first three Yokoyama Yuichi books together, you have a composite image of the development of a landscape for leisure tourism in Japan, and a playfully dystopian view of its ramifications. Ryan Holmberg wrote this excellent piece about Yokoyama’s recent work (I’d be remiss not to mention that while we iron out how best to bring Baby Boom to these shores, PBox is offering a new limited edition book that contains work in that vein, BABYBOOMFINAL), and kindly offered it to Comics Comics. The Playwright: Axes, Bold As Love | The Panelists on 9-Panel Grids.Hold me closer, tiny Danzig… « No Moleste on Esoteric Comics History part 666.The Mid-Life Moment in Alternative Comics.You got to have a J-O-B if you wanna be with me.

Cage Match #3: My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (2008).

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