{"product_id":"box-garden-beetle-paperback","title":"Box Garden Beetle - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAkino Kondoh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfurling fields of morning glories and buttony polka dots. Wormholes of childhood memories and cabinets of magical curiosities. Balletic bands of laughter and creeping stippled shadows. Armies of insects and doppelgangers. An ethereal poetry of exquisite line and quiet space on one page, a surrealism of exploding form and whirling imagination on the next. Recognized both as a painter and as a master alternative manga artist whose early work was published by renowned alt-manga publisher Seirinkogeisha and lauded by masters like Seiichi Hayashi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Chiba, Japan, in 1980. Kondoh graduated from Tama Art University with a BA in Graphic Design in 2003. Her work spans various media-animation, manga, drawing, painting-and has been exhibited internationally. She has earned fundings from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunka-cho) and the Pola Art Foundation. In 2010, the digest version of her animation \"Ladybirds' Requiem\" made it to the top 25 list of the \"YouTube Play - A Biennial of Creative Video\" at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 2011 Kondoh presented the animation \"KiyaKiya\" during the eponym exhibition at Mizuma Art Gallery. Her first essay collection \"Fushigi to iu niha Jimi na Hanashi\" (Nanarokusha Publishing Inc.) was published in 2012. She contributes biweekly to the online literary magazine \"MATOGROSSO\" with her manga \" New York de Kangae-chu.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741466472669,"sku":"9781953629456","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/coeFHC_-Fl9781953629456.webp?v=1789883465","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/box-garden-beetle-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}