He said: “The product you mentioned is not official. Keita Murano, a member of the international rights staff at Shueisha, the Japanese publisher of Oda’s manga, confirmed that his company had not been consulted about the JBE book.
When asked if Eiichiro Oda had been involved or consulted about the creation of ONEPIECE, and if there were any copyright considerations, JBE’s spokesperson said: “This piece is about Manouach’s work around ecosystems of comics, here as a sculptor who uses online dissemination as source material, not reading copyrighted content.” There could be no infringement of copyright, the publisher believes, because it is physically impossible to read the book. It’s a theory that the comics industry itself has already embraced - one company, CGC, offers a service where it grades customers’ comics and encases them in protective plastic. In creating a book you cannot read, Manouach apparently wanted to highlight the way comics exist as both commodity and literature. JBE also described comics as “dual objects”, having a “use value” for readers and an “exchange value” for collectors. ‘Billed as the longest book in existence’ … ONEPIECE by Ilan Manouach.
“Ilan Manouach’s ONEPIECE proposes 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’.” Manouach’s piece came about because of the “profusion of available online content and the rampant digitisation of the comics industry” which “challenges the state-of-the-art of comics craftsmanship”, according to his publisher. Manouach printed out the Japanese digital edition of One Piece and bound it together, treating the comic not as a book but as “sculptural material”, according to the book/ artwork’s French publisher JBE.Ī spokesperson for JBE told the Guardian that ONEPIECE is an “unreadable sculpture that takes the shape of a book – the largest one to date in page numbers and spine width – that materialises the ecosystem of online dissemination of comics.” Whatever it is classed as, there certainly seems to be a market for ONEPIECE – the limited edition run of 50 copies sold out within days of its release on 7 September. It is being sold instead as the work of Ilan Manouach, the multidisciplinary artist who has designed the limited edition volume, which is titled ONEPIECE. Priced at €1,900 (£1,640), the book isn’t credited to Eiichiro Oda, the writer and artist behind One Piece, which has been serialised in Japanese magazine Shōnen Jump every week since 1997.
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