Picture of Nobody - Philip Owens Seishi Yokomizo from NYRB Classics

from NYRB Classics

And one of our favorite comic duos

so to speak

May 1981 issue of this magazine of "International Advertising Art" / all text is given in 3 languages - German

” is a surreal region that grotesquely mimics the quotidian: Is that river the Thames

Picture of Nobody - Philip Owens Seishi Yokomizo from NYRB ClassicsPicture of Nobody by Philip Owens 304 page paperback with flaps published in 2026 by McNally Editions ISBN 9781961341883 *** Truly unlike any other book I have read. Shakespeare and AntiShakespeare, a time slipping tragicomedy of errors, grim and gorgeous, sparkling and sliding with wit and melancholy . . . Picture of Nobody is a masterpiece, and a very strange one too. David Tibet, Current 93 Transposed into the early twentieth century, a nonentity