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Yuichi Yokoyama (横山裕一, Yokoyama Yūichi, born April 3, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and painter.
Life
[edit]He graduated from Musashino Art University in 1990 with a degree in oil painting. After graduation, he first focused on painting, but didn't have enough money to buy oil paint, so he used plywood and house paint instead. He applied for different art contests, but didn't get any prizes. Eventually, he won a contest by an illustration magazine instead and he started to work in illustration in order to make a living.[1][2]
Eventually, he shifted his expression towards manga, as he wanted to express serial pictures rather than single pictures. Yokoyama made his debut as a professional manga artist in 1995. He regularly published in the annual alternative manga magazine Comic Cue in the 2000s.[2]
https://urano.tokyo/en/artists/yokoyama_yuichi/
https://www.avclub.com/yuichi-yokoyama-s-iceland-highlights-how-loud-comics-ca-1803757131
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E5%B1%B1%E8%A3%95%E4%B8%80_(%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB%E5%AE%B6)
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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuichi_Yokoyama
Style
[edit]Yokoyama's works are considered avant-garde manga.[3] Yokoyama's works are not focused on storytelling; he himself says storytelling is not important to him.[2]
Sound words are very prominent in his work, usually represented in an unusually large manner. Ryan Holmberg writes that World Map Room and Iceland "are crammed so heavily with roaring sound effects that the human figures are forced to navigate not just other people and physical obstacles but also sensorial invasions of visual and aural noise."[3]
Influences: Tadashi Kawamata's People Garden[2]
Works
[edit]| Title | Year | Notes | Refs |
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| New Engineering (ニュー土木, New Doboku) | 2004 | Serialized in Comic Cue Published by East Press in 1 vol. Published in English by PictureBox |
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| Travel (トラベル) | 2006 | Serialized in Comic Cue Published by East Press in 1 vol. Published in English by PictureBox |
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| Garden (Niwa) | 2007 | Serialized in Comic Cue Published by East Press in 1 vol. Published in English by PictureBox |
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| "Astronauts" (アストロノート) | 2009 | Short story published in Weekly Playboy | |
| Baby Boom (ベビーブーム) | 2009 | Serialized in Comic Cue Published by East Press in 1 vol. |
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| Outdoor (アウトドアー) | 2009 | Published by Kodansha in 1 vol. Published in English by Breakdown Press |
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| Color Engineering | 2011 | Paintings published by PictureBox in 1 vol. | |
| World Map Room (世界地図の間, Sekai Chizu no Ma) | 2013 | Published by East Press in 1 vol. Published in English by PictureBox |
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| Fashion to Misshitsu (ファッションと密室) | 2015 | Published by 888Books in 1 vol. | |
| Iceland (アイスランド) | 2017 | Published by 888Books in 1 vol. Published in English by Retrofit Comics |
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| Plaza (プラザ) | 2019 | Published by 888Books in 1 vol. Published in English by Living the Line, LLC. |
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| Moeru Oto | 2020 | [2] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Yûichi Yokoyama". lambiek.net. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
- ^ a b c d e 芦澤純 (2021-03-11). "Yuichi Yokoyama's "Neo Manga" And His Relationship With Contemporary Art and Manga - TOKION". TOKION - Cutting edge culture and fashion information. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
- ^ a b c August 24, Ryan Holmberg |; 2017 (2017-08-24). "Eye Drum: Yokoyama Yuichi and Audiovisual Abstraction in Comics". The Comics Journal. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
{{cite web}}:|last2=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ September 20, Ryan Holmberg |; 2017 (2017-09-20). "Eye Buds: Yokoyama Yuichi and Audiovisual Abstraction in Comics, Part 2". The Comics Journal. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
{{cite web}}:|last2=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Collins, Sean T. (2011-03-08). "Exclusive preview and interview: Explore Yuichi Yokoyama's Garden of unearthly delights". CBR. Retrieved 2023-02-27.