Satoshi Kitamura - Guardian Review Feature

Satoshi Kitamura - Guradian Review Feature by Joanna Carey
Highly Recommended

[Kitamura]'s latest book, The Young Inferno (Frances Lincoln), is a new departure -- a streetwise version of Dante's 700-year-old original, retold for a young audience by the poet John Agard. Here, Kitamura's black and white drawings take on a new freedom and ferocity. As the teenage hoodie narrator makes his way down the gutter of the book and into the nine circles of hell, the line is more authoritative and emphatic than ever, excitingly varied in tone and texture, responding to every nuance of Agard's text...