The conceptual artist Ilan Manouach has turned each quantity of Eiichiro Oda’s common ongoing manga One Piece into what’s now reportedly the world’s biggest e-book, dubbed (naturally) ONEPIECE.
Coming in at 21,450 pages contained inside a single sure backbone (and a slipcase), this conceptual artpiece is 31.5 inches (80cm) extensive and weighs 36lb (16.5kg) – that’s concerning the width of a regular Billy bookcase from IKEA together with the body.
According to Guinness World Records, the longest e-book – at the least outlined by characters – is a 1912 novel by Marcel Proust which was 9,609,000 characters lengthy. At 500 phrases a web page, that will imply it was roughly 19,218 pages lengthy.
ONEPIECE was produced in a partnership with JBE books and sure by Elise De Maio. A really restricted variety of fifty editions of the e-book exist – and every is signed and numbered by the artist. They don’t come low-cost, nevertheless, as getting one will set you again €1900 (roughly US$1925) earlier than transport, which can be positive to not be low-cost.
The intent of ONEPIECE appears to be to bodily realise the concept of an unlimited comedian run that’s extensively learn digitally, both by authorized digital shops or illegally by scanlation websites, in addition to in smaller volumed instalments.
Here is the PR:
“Digital comics are on the pulsating middle of a world, leisure business. Online participatory tradition and the medium’s new networked potentialities have intensified the character of comics past the scope {of professional}, established experience with new and disruptive types of entrepreneurial fan tradition. Readers scan, translate and distribute on-line their favourite manga sequence. ONEPIECE is a product of this expanded digital manufacturing belt.
“The profusion of available online content and the rampant digitization of the comics industry, challenges the state-of-the-art of comics craftsmanship. Ilan Manouach’s ONEPIECE proposes to shift the understanding of digital comics from a qualitative examination of the formal possibilities of digital comics to a quantitative reappraisal of “comics as Big Data”. ONEPIECE initiates a “computational turn” in comics contributing to the formation of recent areas of apply, increasing the ever-growing inventive toolbox permitting artists to assume comics in several scales and temporalities.
“Comics are dual objects. They have a use value–for readers– and an exchange value for collectors. Although these two functions are not operating along a clear-cut divide, they sometimes run opposite to each other. ONEPIECE intensifies this duality as it can only be contemplated as a material instantiation of digital comics’ very own media-saturated digital ecosystem. ONEPIECE exists only as an object of pure speculation.”
Ilan Manouach is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose pursuits embody conceptual and post-digital comics. Among his (controversial) works and achievements embody Shapereader, an experimental tactile graphic communication system (or comedian) for artists with visible impairments; Katz (2015), a precise copy of the French version of Art Spiegelman’s Maus with all of the characters redrawn as cats; and Tintin Akei Kongo (2015) which interprets the notorious Tintin within the Congo by Herge into the official Congolese language Lingala.
Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece pirate manga is a phenomenon that debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in July 1997. Now within the early phases of the ultimate arc, One Piece is at present at 1059 weekly chapters. Last yr the collections (tankōbon volumes) handed quantity 100 and as of August 2022 it was introduced that the manga had handed one other mammoth milestone: over 500 million copies of the sequence was in print worldwide, making it the best-selling manga of all time. Last month the 103rd quantity debuted in Japan – although presumably solely the 102 French releases had been compiled into ONEPIECE – and the fifteenth One Piece animated film, One Piece: Red, launched in Japanese theatres turning into one of many high 100 grossing Japanese films of all time.
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