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Man Fou: A selection of Japanese alternative comics (volumes 1 and 2)

Man Fou: A selection of Japanese alternative comics (volumes 1 and 2)

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You have been wandering the bustling downtown area of ​​Japanese manga for many years.
So, are you ready to turn down the dark alley, go deep,
Have you met its real and changeable appearance?

These 24 short stories: an annual ring of 50 years of alternative comics,
It will allow Taiwan readers to glimpse a completely unfamiliar lone giant tree,
Refresh the local awareness of "manga".

"If it is a manga magazine, several of the included works will be created in a popular style, but the styles of the works included in this compilation are all individual and very different from each other. And the works of different styles are arranged in There is nothing wrong with them together, which is incredible. Because their respective characteristics stimulate each other, if you want to use a metaphor, they are like turning into organisms, forming a relationship that "enhances each other's vitality", making such a unique world possible. 」──Chief Editor-in-Chief of Aobayashi Craftshouse‧Noriko Tezuka

In 1964, "Monthly Manga Garo" was launched. In the era of innovation and change, "GARO" also encourages comic experiments with a unique editorial policy, and gathers a group of authors who do not want to be limited by the logic of existing commercial comics. "What kind of painting style and grid can I express? What kind of subjective and objective world can I express?" Their inquiries have expanded the boundaries of comics, enriched the landscape of comics, and become the foundation of today's prosperous age of comics. one.

Half a century later, Mangasick, a private comic warehouse, was established inspired by the "GARO" series of comics. First, it provided Taiwan readers with the opportunity to access original works in the form of a private library, and then added a bookstore service, selling a small amount of such comics to gourmets. , after more than five years of preparation, finally edited, translated, and published this collection, officially pushing the "GARO" series of comics and its adjacent works to mass readers.

"Manga" is divided into two volumes. The first volume contains the works of Tatsumi Yoshihiro, Tsuruge Yoshiharu, Abe Shinichi, Maruo Suehiro, etc., reflecting the sadness and depression of young people from the 1960s to the 1980s. It can be said to be one of the upstream manga systems of Asano Kazuo and Oshimi Shuzo. The authors included in the second volume are: Nosho Hiruko, who is well-known as an artist, Maki Sasaki, whom Haruki Murakami respects, Mao Yu, who died young, and Hanako Yamada, etc. Readers can get a glimpse of the consumerism society’s traction on alternative comics, as well as Japanese illustrations and comics. The origin of the close relationship of manga.

This is a collection of cartoons like the Ximending Lion Grove Film Festival. This is an anthology of short stories from the twentieth century. Suitable for you who don't usually read Japanese manga. It is more suitable for you who like mainstream Japanese manga, but no longer just want to read/create mainstream Japanese manga. How to start from the framework of mainstream Japanese manga, and then jump out of the framework? The authors of this compilation have done a brilliant job.


Open the book, you will encounter strange, poignant, or absurd (some are funny and not)

Maruo Suehiro Electric Ant
The re-examination teenager was surrounded by construction noise and mother's nagging around his home,
Gradually escape into the mechanized mental world.

Hanawa and One Meat Mansion
When the woman learned that her husband had to take some kind of strange medicine for his strange disease, she began to dye her hands red.
But it turns out that the husband who is gradually getting better has other things in mind.

Tatsumi Kayu Hell
The reporter went to Hiroshima after the atomic bombing, and took pictures of the afterimages burned on the ruined walls:
Oh my God, it was the back-beating filial son and his mother who died instantly. What else could it be?

Narrative Scenery by the Sea
The men and women who met by chance at the beach wandered in the rumored shadow of death and the mystery of the world.
In the gray, in the rain. It seemed as if something dried up before it could sprout.

ordinary people
Heading into town to celebrate our wedding anniversary! But there are people in the city who are jealous of happiness
Random killer. How can we escape?

Volume of Seiyu
The cat sisters and piglets played together, they stepped into the department store where pigs are not allowed to enter, and they ushered in an unexpected night time in the empty rooftop children's paradise.

by monorail
I got lost near my home and came to an supposedly abandoned monorail station leading to an amusement park. As the departure bell rang, something "something" I had to ride slid into the tracks...

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