We watch the vampires as they settle domestic disputes over doing the housework, struggle to meet new victims and deal with modern technology. What We Do in the Shadows is a New Zealand comedy horror mockumentary directed by Jermaine Clement and Taika Waititi about a group of vampires who share a house in modern day Wellington. There’s also an interview on Comics Alliance with some seriously straight-to-the-point, no-nonsense answers from the artist. He has produced several books as well as large artworks and paintings, making great use of bright colours. As far as we can make out Yokoyama doesn’t have a website, but he does have an interesting profile with an interview and some excellent exhibition images on Azito, an online Japanese art gallery. Yuichi Yokoyama – Aichi Triennale 2013, Choja-machi Area, Aichi, Japan. Photo by Tamotsu Kido, Courtesy of ARATANIURANO

His pages do not contain many speech bubbles or have much in the way of explanation so it’s up to the reader to make sense of the densely filled, intricate imagery. New Engineering is a manga book filled with incredibly precise black and white sequential drawings of people getting up to all sorts of interesting things such as sculpting vast landscapes with strange machines, having fights in libraries and taking part in surreal fashion shows. It’s the Stuff we done cultural round-up, volume 4! These are the most enjoyable cultural things we have digested in our mind-brains lately… We read: New Engineering by Yuichi Yokoyama

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