When I would like to have done something myself it means that I really like that thing, that’s the case of Travel, a manga I’ve recently bought.

I really like the cover jacket, which hide in the inside a “secret” drawing.

Beside the good layout, that makes of this book also a nice object, the comic it self, if we can call it “comic”, is pushed to it’s limits, and it become something else, touching the edges of a pure art form.
The plot it’s completely without words and sounds, this privation makes the story be a sequence of uninterrupted actions, and even if there aren’t words to tell us which sounds or which thoughts are passing by the characters’ mind, we can figure it out on our own even stronger.
It feels like that the author Yuchi Yokoyama created a unique graphic language, where the lines of actions and the happenings trough the story intersect creating panels of pure abstraction.

The other recommendation, is also a manga, but in this case a very classic one, that I’ve just discover recently.
Oishinbo is a jorney into the culinary Japanese’s culture, where two masters of cooking challenge themeselfs in a series of cooking battles.
Trough this comic you can understand how important is the food in Japanese culture which is one of my favorites together with the Italian cuisine. This manga works as a real cooking book, in fact the detailed explanation of the dishes can aloud you to really make them.

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