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Box Garden Beetle

Box Garden Beetle

By Akino Kondoh
Paperback
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Unfurling fields of morning glories and buttony polka dots. Wormholes of childhood memories and cabinets of magical curiosities. Balletic bands of laughter and creeping stippled shadows. Armies of insects and doppelgangers. An ethereal poetry of exquisite line and quiet space on one page, a surrealism of exploding form and whirling imagination on the next. Recognized both as a painter and as a master alternative manga artist whose early work was published by renowned alt-manga publisher Seirinkogeisha and lauded by masters like Seiichi Hayashi

Author: Akino Kondoh
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Glacier Bay Books
Published: 09/01/2026
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781953629456

About The Author
Born in Chiba, Japan, in 1980. Kondoh graduated from Tama Art University with a BA in Graphic Design in 2003. Her work spans various media-animation, manga, drawing, painting-and has been exhibited internationally. She has earned fundings from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunka-cho) and the Pola Art Foundation. In 2010, the digest version of her animation "Ladybirds' Requiem" made it to the top 25 list of the "YouTube Play - A Biennial of Creative Video" at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 2011 Kondoh presented the animation "KiyaKiya" during the eponym exhibition at Mizuma Art Gallery. Her first essay collection "Fushigi to iu niha Jimi na Hanashi" (Nanarokusha Publishing Inc.) was published in 2012. She contributes biweekly to the online literary magazine "MATOGROSSO" with her manga " New York de Kangae-chu."
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