Ebisu Yoshikazu

Collection of stories, full of absurd scenarios and dry humor.

‘Salaryman from Hell’ is the first in a collection of Ebisu’s stories entitled “The Man Who Saw Hell.” It’s about the day in the life of a normal Japanese salaryman. For the uninitiated, salarymen are an iconic figure in modern Japan, taking the role of everyman. Ebisu uses this generic salaryman figure in most of his stories.

Comics Underground Japan presents the wild, subversive world of Japan’s most accomplished underground comics artists. Some of the dozen artists included in this anthology will be familiar to followers of manga; others make their American debut in these pages. The richly imaginative stories in this volume show a great range of graphic style, from painstakingly detailed craftsmanship to exuberant, maniacal renderings. At the heart of each work in this anthology is a unique personal vision and a fierce artistic compulsion–these manga artists are the misfits of the art form, and they are its visionaries. Included stories are: "Hell's Angel" by Yoshikazu Ebisu "It's All Right if You Don't Understand" by Yoshikazu Ebisu "Steel Pipe Melancholia" by Masakazu Toma "Future Sperm Brazil" by Takashi Nemoto "A Love Like Lemons" by Carol Shimoda "Selfish Carol's Summer Vacation" by Carol Shimoda "Mercy Flesh (Jiniku)" by Kazuichi Hanawa "Don Quixote #1 & #2" by Yasuji Tanioka "Planet of the Jap" by Suehiro Maruo "Mary’s Asshole" by Hanako Yamada "Volvox" by Pan Migawa "Bigger and Better" by Muddy Wehara "Laughing Ball" by Hideshi Hino "Cat Noodle Soup" by Hajime Yamano & Nekojiro

A massive, 1200 page anthology gathering one-shots from every Garo mangaka up until 1984.

Manga anthology based on stories by Yasutaka Tsutsui (science fiction author who previously wrote The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Paprika.)