TRACT pocket edition is an A5 reprint of the earlier A4 release, issued by Hollow Press as the ninth printing, October 2025. The run is limited to 250 copies.
The book is digitally printed across 64 full-colour pages on 170g paper, in a paperback, glue-bound format. The A5 dimensions position it as a reading object rather than a display piece.
Editorial work is credited to Michele Nitri, with graphic design by Marco "Keno" Del Negro. A foreword by Christopher Butcher, journalist at comics212.net and founder and director of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, situates the edition within contemporary manga and small-press publishing contexts.
Shintaro Kago works at the intersection of formal experiment and surreal and experimental comics, treating the page as a structural system in which bodies, sequence, and architecture are subject to precise, clinical manipulation. His work is consistently discussed within experimental and underground publishing, where structural logic carries as much weight as image content. TRACT pocket edition is an entry point into that practice at a format designed for use.
