![]() ![]() It’s a bold statement about form: sequences of panels depict motion, and when the motion must stop so must the comic. ![]() The book’s final few pages show the three passengers whose embarkation begins the story leaving the train and taking a quick walk to a sea shore, where the froth of crashing waves prohibits further movement, literally ending the comic in its tracks. Over the course of its nearly 200 silent pages, readers watch the progress of a train’s riders through a series of stunning, occasionally futuristic landscapes, and are thereby implicated in the journey themselves. ![]() Yuichi Yokoyama’s first full-length graphic novel, Travel, tells the story of a journey, and ends with a destination. Features Yokoyama’s Rubicon: Humanity/ Color/ Transcendence ![]()
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