Details Writer: Manuele Fior Artist: Manuele Fior Publisher: Fantagraphics Price: £21.99 Released: Out now
It took seven years for Italian artist Manuele Fior’s 5,000 KM Per Second to appear in English last year, and thankfully Fantagraphics haven’t kept us waiting as long for this. First published in Italy in 2013, it casts its eye to 2048, where there’s a charge in the air. After a period of unspecified social upheaval, a young political movement called the ‘New Convention’ is rewriting norms, while mysterious shapes appear in the sky, suggesting new, extra-terrestrial influences.
Leaving the colour washes of 5,000 KM Per Second behind, Fior works with a monochromatic palette, conjuring up mysterious, sensual textures, mixing up sharp, architectural linework with deep shadows and, for the more fantastical sequences, ‘special effects’ by…
