• Front cover showing Kago’s exploded portrait illustration in pastel tones with red typography.
  • Back board of Shintaro Kago: Artbook Vol. 1 (Third Edition) with red title and The Mansion Press mark.
  • Interior color plate depicting a radial “sunburst” made of anatomical forms and organs.
  • Interior spread: city scene with schoolgirls and open head motifs; caption “Separate House.”
  • Interior spread titled “Nowhere girl” showing a hallway scene with figures and blood effects.
  • Interior spread titled “School life” with classroom setting and anatomical cutaway imagery.
  • Interior spread titled “Dinner party” featuring a crowded scene with tubing and surreal medical motifs.
  • Interior spread titled “Faucet” with school uniforms and mechanical fixtures attached to faces.
  • Interior spread titled “Three sisters” with mirrored faces, cords, and multiple-eye motif.
  • Interior spread titled “Tea party” showing whimsical cats around sweets and toys.
  • Interior spread titled “Assembly line” showing a dense, surreal collage of mannequin-like figures and hands in a factory setting.
  • Close-up of Shintaro Kago: Artbook Vol. 1 (Third Edition) hardcover spine with soft-touch finish, spot-UV title, and The Mansion Press logo.
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Shintaro Kago: Artbook vol.1 (third edition)

Shintaro Kago: Artbook vol.1 (third edition) Hardcover

Shintaro Kago
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Shintaro Kago: Artbook Vol. 1 (Third Edition) is a hardcover artbook with 152 color pages (approx. 17 × 24.1 cm), a smaller-format reissue featuring spot UV and soft-touch lamination.

Hardcover, 17.0 x 24.0 cm, 0.6 kg , 152 pages
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Shintaro Kago: Artbook Vol. 1 — Third Edition compiles 152 color illustrations by the Japanese artist Shintaro Kago, noted for ero guro, surreal logics, and experimental page design. This reissue comes in a smaller size (approx. 17 × 24.1 cm) as a hardcover with spot UV and soft-touch lamination. Positioned within Artist Publications, Surreal & Indie Comics, and curated visual storytelling, the volume serves as an archival artbook highlighting Kago’s precise linework and dense compositions.

Shintaro Kago (b. 1969, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator, internationally recognized for his unique “Ero Guro” (erotic grotesque) style. Active since the 1990s, Kago’s work often explores themes of body transformation, social taboos, and media deconstruction. His graphic narratives have been featured in galleries, magazines, and avant-garde publishers such as Hollow Press.

Hardcover, 17.0 x 24.0 cm, 0.6 kg, 152 pages, English
ISBN: 9782492646324

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