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  • Title:Mirage
  • Author:逆柱いみり (逆柱IMIRI)
  • Publisher:Mangasick (comic private warehouse)
  • Assist in production:TACO ché
  • Print:Jingwei Graphic Arts
  • Publication Date:2016-08-13
  • Binding:64 pages / 20 x 20 cm
  • Price:900 yuan (limited to 1,000 copies)

● Front butterfly page↓

● Back butterfly page↓

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This is very special. It was published by Mangasick, an independent comics shop in Taiwan. Looking at the production on the introduction page, I can’t help but want to talk about it. XD

[Mangasick publication] IMIRI, "The Mirage"

The painting collection adopts a square book (which can be spread flat) with a bare spine. The cover of the hard-shell cloth has a texture to the touch. It is decorated with copper-colored gilded fonts and has unique binding characteristics.

The 64-page content consists of color pages + black and white pages + color pages, and the paper used is different.

Among them, there are easter eggs on page 40, and you can turn over the colored paper to see the cute seal underneath!

Page after page after falling into the fantasy world written by Nizhu Imari~

Official Introduction

IMIRI is a new album of seven years following "Umbilical Street" (Navel Street, published by TACO ché). It includes pictures from Tokyo, Kyoto, and Marseilles in France, as well as pictures of new solo exhibitions in Taiwan. It also includes comics without lines from the 81st and 82nd issues of the Japanese experimental manga magazine "AX". They are not included in other manga booklets.

This is an index-level travel book for the world of Inverse Pillars: it covers everything from the most representative depiction of miscellaneous space to the recent stage of silence built by large color blocks. Cute and weird characters are also beckoning at every corner today. The huge ant mounds glued together with monster movies, toy stores, traditional markets, shabby houses, and factory settings will continue to be expanded tomorrow.

About the Author

逆柱いみり (逆柱IMIRI)

He debuted in the legendary comic magazine "GARO" in 1989, and currently uses the iconic experimental comic magazine "AX" as the main publishing platform. So far, only eight manga booklets have been published, of which seven have been out of print and have become a treasure in the Japanese ancient book market. Although he is a widowed manga artist, he has a large number of enthusiastic book fans in Japan and abroad. Canada's Drawn & Quarterly Publishing House and France's IMHO Publishing House helped him release comics in English and French respectively. In addition to comic creation, he has also held painting exhibitions since 2004, and he has emerged as a painter. In 2014, he was invited to France to participate in the historical retrospective exhibition "MANGARO" of Japanese alternative comic magazine "GARO", where he completed large-scale paintings and three-dimensional works. In 2015, I was invited by Ruixiang Museum and SC Comics to hold seminars in Shanghai, Suzhou and Nanjing, China.

His painting and manga style has a strong Asian nostalgia. The street scenes of Southeast Asia are mixed with signatures, and the cement heterogeneous space of the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, like monsters and wonderful creatures running out of special films or video games, all live in a fantasy folk village. Viewers can freely travel through the dreamlike tropical world, recalling the childish and crazy childhood nightmare.

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