BABY BOOM SC

Gosh! Best Of 2022

Quite frankly the most startling and innovative comic you will read in this lifetime! Pushing the boundaries of kineticism in comics, art manga darling Yuichi Yokoyama’s Baby Boom is quite easily one of the most beautifully presented books we’ve seen all year. Ostensibly following a parent and child interacting and exploring the world at large, it’s a hilarious and heartwarming collection of vignettes. Yokoyama's comics are entirely unique: free from the traditional modes of narrative, his work explores motion, sound and structure, generating striking, beautifully graphic stories that propel the reader into a world of onomatopoeia, speed, and visual noise. Collecting 39 short pieces, each drawn with bright markers, Baby Boom uses polychromy in symbolic and rhythmic ways to create a musical, visually extraordinary experience. The finished article has to be seen to be believed - it’s a joyous onslaught that you need to experience.

“Baby Boom is a book about how the world is a beautiful place, how living in it can be a very wonderful thing, and how the presence of others is what keeps happiness alive in us.” - Matt Seneca, The Comics Journal

Baby Boom is the latest in Breakdown Press’s line of English language editions of work by influential Japanese artist Yokoyama Yuichi.

Yokoyama's comics are entirely unique: free from the traditional modes of narrative, his work explores motion, sound and structure, generating striking, beautifully graphic stories that propel the reader into a world of onomatopoeia, speed, and visual noise. Collecting 39 short pieces, each drawn with bright markers, Baby Boom uses polychromy in symbolic and rhythmic ways to create a musical, visually extraordinary experience.

With a cover design by Jean-Philippe Bretin, an essay by manga academic Ryan Holmberg, and an interview with Yokoyama himself, this new English language edition, masterfully printed using Pantone spot colours, brings together Yokoyama’s most ground-breaking work to date.

Baby Boom was printed by offset lithography at DeckersSnoeck in Belgium