Download the preview and you will not be able to resist these graphical, telluric combats that evoke for us something like Piranesi on acid, in a “ligne claire” and manga version. This book is unrivalled and atypical: reading Yokoyama is an experience in itself. An interview with the author at the end of the book gives some clues on the way he approaches his work.
Both a useful and a precious item.
Art Book Magazine

With Combats, we meet again the costumed, masked and inexpressive characters, the geometrical settings, the drawing overflowing with straight lines and frames that we discovered in Travaux publics, the author’s previous opus. Except that the intra-panels warfare fomented and conspired by text and image, by narration and vision in the previous volume, explodes here for all to see. And in this struggle Yokoyama uses everything, even the kitchen sink: sabres, plates, knives, taps, canons, potted flowers, rockets or books are equally brought into service for combats whose nature remains difficult to ascertain. Taking by turns the aspect of riots or ambushes, urban skirmishes, commando missions, gang wars or simple brawls, these combats, as well as the comic strips showcasing them, seem to come from somewhere else.
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