The art project combines all 21,450 pages of Eiichiro Oda’s hugely successful manga series into one single display piece.
JBE BooksThe massive nontextual matter task is appropriately titled , “ ONEPIECE . ”
It ’s official , the world ’s longest book is here , and it comes in a whopping 21,450 - pageboy volume weighing 37.5 pound . It also happens to be one of the existence ’s most popular manga .
AsArtnetreported , the book is a compiling of every digitally bring out panel of Eiichiro Oda ’s 25 - class - old larger-than-life pirate serial , now inconveniently tie down in an atrociously magnanimous , individual - volume edition thanks to the piece of work of the conceptual artist , Ilan Manouach .
JBE BooksThe massive art project is appropriately titled, “ONEPIECE.”
It is pretty much unacceptable to in reality understand the book from begin to end , as one typically would , but apparently , that ’s the distributor point . Rather , Manouach explained , ONEPIECEis meant to be catch as “ sculpturesque material ” and a show piece for consecrate fans of the serial .
PerKotaku , Manouach ’s website said , “ ONEPIECEcan only be contemplated as a materialisation of digital comics ’ very own media - saturated digital ecosystem . ONEPIECEexists only as an object of sodding meditation . ”
The book ’s spur alone is 31.5 inch long , feature full - color illustrated scene from the manga and its protagonist , Monkey D. Luffy .
JBE BooksWhile the art piece is impressive to look at, it is technically incomplete as Oda’s manga series has yet to conclude.
The art labor , which comes only month after Guinness dubbedOne Piecethe most highly pass around comic in existence , was supported by Manouach ’s Brussels - base nonprofit Echo Chamber and the Gallic publishing company JBE Books .
This past weekend , the art project was even publicly display at the Fiminco Foundation in Romainville , Paris , France , as part of the Multiple Art Days Fair .
Fifty signed copies of the book - sculpture were made available to the public — at a pricepoint of € 1,900 , or $ 1,893 — all of which were purchased within days of its September 7 handout .
JBE BooksBecause the book is impossible to read, JBE Books argues that it does not therefore violate copyright law.
JBE BooksWhile the art piece is impressive to look at , it is technically incomplete as Oda ’s manga series has yet to reason .
Prior to theONEPIECEproject , Manouach was love for an artistic creation piece calledShapreader , designed for comic Scripture readers with ocular impairments and “ built on a growing repertoire of tactile ideograms ( tactigrams ) that provide haptic equivalents for all the semantic features of a comics narrative . ”
Manouach ’s plain goal withONEPIECEwas to highlight how comics can be both work of lit and piece of merchandise , each with their own intrinsical time value .
A JBE spokesperson toldThe GuardianthatONEPIECEis an “ unreadable carving that call for the pattern of a leger — the largest one to escort in varlet routine and spine width – that materialize the ecosystem of online diffusion of comic . ”
The publishing house also touch on to comedian as “ dual object ” with a specific “ use note value ” for consumer and an “ exchange value ” for collectors .
“ Ilan Manouach’sONEPIECEproposes 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 , ' ” JBE ’s spokesperson said .
JBE BooksBecause the book is impossible to read , JBE Books argues that it does not therefore violate right of first publication constabulary .
Furthermore , neither Eiichiro Oda nor his Nipponese publisher , Shueisha , were touch about the artwork spell .
A member of the publisher ’s international right hand faculty , Keita Murano , informedThe Guardianthat Manouach’sONEPIECE“is not prescribed . We do n’t give permit to [ JBE Books ] . Our licensee in France which publishesOne Pieceis the publisher Glénat . ”
JBE Books , however , argue that the project does n’t technically violate any right of first publication becauseONEPIECEcan’t be read by any of the collectors who purchase it . And for what it ’s worth , Oda is already the moneyed manga creator of all meter — his nett Charles Frederick Worth is gauge to be around $ 200 million .
It should also be noted that whileONEPIECEcomprises 98 volume ofOne Piece , the manga itself is not yet finished — therefore , ONEPIECEis also , technically , uncomplete .
Oda has , however , stated that the manga is in its “ last stages , ” though whether that means two more volumes or twenty more volumes is unreadable . The Jehovah is , if nothing else , prolific .
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