Les cahiers japonais #3

Three elegantly dressed figures — two women in vibrant kimonos and one in 1920s Western fashion — stand against a muted cityscape, while surreal creatures lurk at the edges: a spider in its web, a parachuting silhouette, and a masked yokai-like face peeking from the border. Igort's third volume of his Japanese notebooks, subtitled Moga, Mobo, Monstres, promises an immersive blend of cultural observation and the uncanny, rooted in the tension between modern and traditional Japan. Published by Futuropolis in 2021, this is a beautifully composed entry in one of European comics' most visually distinctive travelogue series.