©zajirogh/SHOGAKUKAN

16th Manga Division Jury Selections

RAPID COMMUTER UNDERGROUND

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zajirogh [Japan]

Outline

Zajirogh is a salaryman who draws manga during his daily four-hour round-trip commute — a perfectly appropriate activity on a subway that shuttles between fantasy and reality. Today he continues to ride that real/surreal subway, pen in hand, depicting a mysterious underground world where pens take the form of pantographs and elephants amble aboard the train.