• Cover of Industrial Revolution and World War by Shintaro Kago, grotesque manga published by Hollow Press
  • Title page of the 10th edition of Industrial Revolution and World War featuring surreal brain imagery
  • Page from Industrial Revolution and World War showing soldiers on camel-like creatures in a canyon
  • Manga page with humanoid figures in mechanical armor attacking industrial buildings
  • Panel from Shintaro Kago’s manga showing surreal surgery and brain dissection
  • Graphic page showing violent combat and grotesque dismemberment in Kago’s manga
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Shintaro Kago | Hollow Press

Industrial Revolution and World War - Shintaro Kago (English Edition)

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Industrial Revolution and World War is a limited Hollow Press booklet pairing Shintaro Kago’s black satire with precise A4 offset printing and collector-grade construction.

  • Limited Hollow Press printing (1,000 copies), offset production
  • A4 format on 170g paper; 32 pages plus full-colour cover
  • Hybrid build: soft spine with hard front and back covers
  • German glued paperback binding; made for handling and shelving
  • Foreword contextualising Kago’s satire and mass-production themes
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About the Book

Industrial Revolution and World War collects a concentrated slice of Shintaro Kago’s visual logic: clean linework, abrupt violence, and a mechanical sense of repetition. Published by Hollow Press (September 2023), this is the eleventh printing, limited to 1,000 copies, produced in offset on 170g paper.

The format is deliberately direct. A4 size, 32 pages plus a full-colour cover, with a hybrid build: soft spine with hard front and back covers, finished as a German glued paperback. Industrial Revolution and World War reads quickly, but it lingers as an object—flat, rigid, and made to be handled without fragility.

A foreword by James Harvey frames the work as an indictment of mass production and the way it reduces both goods and people into repeatable units. In that context, Industrial Revolution and World War becomes a small, sharply manufactured artifact about manufactured life.

About the Author

Shintaro Kago is a Japanese manga artist associated with ero guro and formal experimentation. His work often uses clean compositional systems—panels, grids, repeated motifs—to stage ruptures: slapstick brutality, anatomical distortion, and social satire. Across short works and longer projects, he treats the page as a device that can be broken, rewired, and used against itself.

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Publisher / Manufacturer: Hollow Press
Country of origin: Italy
Website: https://hollow-press.net/

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