Glacier Bay Books

PANDORA

$35.00

Shipping now. by Hagiwara Rei. Published by Glacier Bay Books, April 2023. 264 pages, A5. Full color offset printing on coated text stock. Sewn perfect binding with full color double sided half-jacket / obi + color interior cover printing. ISBN 978-1-953629-26-5 “Five meditations on grief receding into memory, phantoms of traumas past but not yet forgotten, people struggling to make peace with loss. Hagiwara Rei sets out a sequential tapestry of transcendent watercolor comics which linger in the back of your mind like words you never got to tell someone you loved. Heart-wrenching, intimate. Open Pandora and allow its haunted…

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Category: Glacier Bay Catalogue, manga, vancaf_24

Tags: full color, Glacier Bay Books, Hagiwara Rei

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“A collection of five short stories that aren’t quite connected by narrative, but are definitely connected tonally and atmospherically. Each story tie together with their quiet sense of melancholy and loss, and are gorgeously rendered in soft watercolors reminscent of other noted painters in the medium like Hayao Miyazaki, Kent Williams, John J. Muth, etc. The quaint quality to the storytelling also reminded me a little of Linnea Sterte’s A Frog in the Fall, though this one is signficantly more sadder to read.” [Rick Ray]

“These stories are going to put you in touch with your deep (and not so deep) grieving but in the end it will leave you with a “it’s not so bad” feeling. At the end, I wanted to read everything again. Definitely a book to revisit in the future.” [Urbon Adamson]

“It’s just phenomenal, far and beyond beautiful… This is so emblematic of life right now… extremely, extremely timeless. If you are someone who enjoys a melancholy story – with hope, it’s a hopefully collection – then definitely, definitely get this book. It is beyond beautiful, it is so, so lovely.” [Simply Gee]

“Glacier Bay hits it out of the park again, with perhaps their most beautifully printed book yet. The attention to Rei’s patient and layered art is appreciated, as the book itself allows us to experience the story with the dignity it deserves. No one is going quite what Glacier Bay is doing, go get this beautiful book.” [Austin English]

“I really enjoyed PANDORA, Hagiwara Rei’s new collection of short comics from @glacierbaybooks. Like RIPPLES, Hagiwara’s authorial voice is loose but assured, vividly depicting the landscape of grief fueling it, not reaching any easy answers and all the better for its questions.” [Hagai Palevsky]

“Every once in a while, a unique work of art comes out of nowhere that really hits you… this is a manga I would recommend to everyone. If you are able to connect with this book like I did, it is something special. Despite the language and cultural barriers, I understood the artist’s message and feelings at a deep level. This is different from what I typically experience with works that are “artistic.” I am able to appreciate the craft but often feel emotionally distant. Hagiwara makes me feel like I am in the room with them. I can watch them create their story, feeling what they’re feeling in synchronous harmony. These are feelings that are hard to put into words, and everyone will feel different. But Hagiwara’s stories struck an emotional chord with me. Days later, they still reverberate within me.” [Will / Rightstuf]

“It is luxurious, it is a damn fine book… Directly talking about loss… there are many beautiful paintings of post-tsunami towns. [The watercolor is really beautiful, but] there’s a sequence that’s just pencil that I really really liked too. I really like Hagiwara Rei’s lines. They are spare, and they are meaningful… you get just enough information from their linework, and it’s really lovely. Really, really lovely stuff… This is a book that I will revisit many times.” [Manga Machinations Podcast]

446 – Triple Dip 72 – PANDORA, Mothers, A Favorable Wind on Full Sails

“Two of the big artist touchpoints that I got were Miyazaki with the watercolors and some of the faces, and John J Muth with the really light, desaturated really soft watercolor letting everything bleed a little… you’ll see panels… that are so simple, but really beautiful… very very sparse pencil drawings, but the compositions are perfect, and the sense of presence and atmosphere that is created by these drawings is perfect… there’s a lot of really sophisticated visual play. I think this is a really sophisticated, really beautiful book…” [Carson Grubaugh / Living the Line]

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Weight	30 oz