Enfu: Cute Grit is an ebulliently adorable collection of graphic artist and video-game designer Ken Taya's unabashedly joyful visual art. "Enfu" is the name Taya uses to sign his creations, like a street-art tagger hopped up on rainbows and babies. The versatile artist creates "tiny meditations on cuteness" in the Japanese chibi style, patterns of repeating graphic symbols that adorn his own line of urban clothing, "I Fart Rainbow" (an online comic strip in both English and Japanese starring his young daughter) and a wild variety of sketches and doodles.
The artwork included in this coffee-table volume--covered in an explosion of Technicolor art, printed on thick paper with hot-pink-stained edges--is a tour de force of multicultural, urban-influenced whimsy, and Enfu is ideal for readers who like to lose themselves in cheeky character art. Taya's brilliance in both color and tone is infectious; it would be hard not to love this book. --Rob LeFebvre, freelance writer and editor