Tag Archives: tetsunori tawaraya

Mat Brinkman’s Multiforce and Teratoid Heights Return to Print in Deluxe Hardcover Museum Editions

Founded in 2015 by Michele Nitri, Hollow Press has published underground comics featuring dark fantasy and macabre artwork. He has worked with an influential roster of artists including Mat Brinkman, Tetsunori Tawaraya, Shintaro Kago, and Jesse Jacobs. Hollow Press books are produced with no expense spared, with limited print runs, funded by the purchase and sale of original artwork from each book. By publishing simultaneously in Italian and English, their books have been able to reach an international market.

Floating World is excited to partner as exclusive distributor of Hollow Press books to the United States. Starting with the new editions of Mat Brinkman’s influential comics Multiforce and Teratoid Heights and books by Tetsunori Tawaraya and Shintaro Kago. More books will become available in coming weeks with the entirety of Hollow Press’ catalog to follow.

Finally back in print, all of Mat Brinkman’s 2000-2005 comic strip serial Multiforce is collected in a deluxe volume at its original printed size. Deeply personal, extravagantly visual, often hilarious: Multiforce is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Museum edition limited to 1500 copies
November 2018 first printing – published by Hollow Press

Museum Edition extra contents:
– Comic review by Frank Santoro “Mat Brinkman the Spiral Architect”
– Multiforce Art Gallery “Real Size Original Pictures”

Multiforce

Teratoid Heights realistically depicts the lifecycles of various species found in the tide location’s cave-riddled terrain, down to the most painstakingly detailed behavioral patterns. It matters not that both Teratoid Heights and its inhabitants are entirely fictional. Brinkman taps into the zeitgeist of modern suburban America with what seems to be a mixture of J.R.R. Tolkein-style adventure, video-game inspired syncopation and an endless barrage of cable-television nature films all filtered through the reddened eyes of a marijuana-addled teenager. A book that reveals levels of humor and humanity no matter what age the reader.

November 2018 first printing – published by Hollow Press

Museum Edition extra contents:
– Foreword by Ratigher
– Unpublished Teratoid Heights comic SNOOT

Teratoid Heights

Binoculars Release Party and Art Exhibit with Tetsunori Tawaraya May 3rd

Tetsunori Tawaraya’s Binoculars is a collection of creatures from another dimension, which display the jewel-like rendering of Tawaraya’s stipple technique.

The visions, and color mixture vary widely from his previous book Telescope, also published by Colour Code. Tawaraya has been lucky enough to watch an enigmatic outland through his mind’s binoculars. Let’s set off on an expedition and observe them all for vivid side effects.

Floating World is the last stop on Tetsunori’s west coast tour, with an art exhibit to celebrate the release of this awesome new book.

WHO: Tetsunori Tawaraya
WHAT: BINOCULARS release party and art exhibit
WHEN: Thursday, May 3, 6-9pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St. Portland, OR 97209