He lives and works in the suburbs of Tokyo. He was the subject of a one-man show at The Kawasaki City Museum in 2010, and has exhibited in galleries and museums in Tokyo, Singapore, Rome and San Francisco. Yokoyama is the author of Travel, New Engineering, Color Engineering and Garden (all published by PictureBox). It takes the not unfamiliar plot backdrop of a train ride and turns it into a psychological meditation on the vehicles architecture and passengers (rather than focusing on the usual narrative-driven concerns such as. Their guide starts to explain the ships history, and slowly, with casual suddenness, the novel comes to a close. The Japanese manga artist Yuichi Yokoyamas latest work, Travel, is a wordless journey into the contemporary Japanese psyche. Eventually they leave, and reach a pond with a sunken ship. Eventually, they arrive at a building where a man welcomes and guides them to the world map room, where they inspect a library. First, the protagonists visit a city then, our heroes watch airplanes departing and arriving at an airport next, they go on board a ship and cross a river.

The events within the narrative are spare and enigmatic: Yokoyama is as much fascinated by shapes and visual effects as he is by character and plot. Book Synopsis The long-awaited graphic novel, punctuated by a minimal plot and extraordinary, ethereal illustrationsIn this, Yuichi Yokoyamas long-awaited original graphic novel, published simultaneously in Japan and France, a stripped-back plot and minimal characterizations allow the artistry of Yokoyamas ethereal drawings to shine through. About the Book Translated from the original Japanese by Ryan Holmberg-Title page verso.

Travel by Yuichi Yokoyama