Kappa Notebook: Deep Water

by Manuela Schiano

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Kappa Notebook: Deep Water is a surreal, textless hardcover comic by Manuela Schiano, published by Hollow Press — an adult narrative following a girl and a kappa yokai, told entirely through ink and sequence.

Format: Hardcover, stitched binding, glossy black cover with black opaque UV spot, black lapping on edges
Pages: 56
Size: 17 × 24 cm
Publisher: Hollow Press, October 2025
Language: No text (textless / wordless)
Edition: 1500 copies, first printing

About the Book

Kappa Notebook: Deep Water — Manuela Schiano

Kappa Notebook: Deep Water is a textless comic by Manuela Schiano, published by Hollow Press in October 2025. It traces an encounter between a girl and a kappa — a yokai from Japanese folklore — across 56 pages of B/W offset printing on Munken paper, bound in a stitched hardcover.

About the Work

The narrative unfolds without words. A girl meets a kappa, and what follows is governed by desire, shifting control, and ambiguity. The register is adult. Moral boundaries are not fixed — they form, dissolve, and re-form as the sequence progresses.

Meaning is carried entirely through gesture, ink density, and the rhythm of page turns. Schiano's line work is deliberate and detail-oriented, drawing on her print-focused practice. The absence of text is not a constraint but a formal decision: the images are composed to be read, not illustrated.

As a work in the Surreal & Experimental Comics tradition, Kappa Notebook: Deep Water operates through visual sequence alone — pacing, weight, and composition carry the full narrative load.

Production

Publisher: Hollow Press, October 2025, first printing
Format: Hardcover, stitched binding, 17 × 24 cm
Pages / print: 56 pages, B/W offset, Munken paper
Cover finish: Glossy black with black opaque UV spot
Edges: Black lapping
Edition: 1500 copies, first printing

Series Context

Kappa Notebook: Deep Water is the second title in Hollow Press's women-led erotic tale series. The full catalogue of Hollow Press titles is available at Lokator100.

About Manuela Schiano

Manuela Schiano is an Italian artist from Naples. She trained at the State Art School of Naples and continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts before moving into theatre work.

Her drawing practice is built around detail, ink, and print processes. She has a sustained interest in Japanese culture and folk myths, which informs the subject matter and visual language of her comics. Her working method typically begins with photographic references, which she develops through inking and print-minded composition.

Product details

Year: October 2025
Format: Hardcover, stitched binding, glossy black cover with black opaque UV spot, black lapping on edges
Pages: 56
Dimensions: 17 × 24 cm
Weight: 0.3 kg
Language: No text (textless / wordless)
Edition: 1500 copies, first printing

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

Address:
Hollow Press di Nitri Michele
 Via A. Da Zara 8/H
71121  Foggia (FG)
Italy

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