[156] pages of beautiful and tremulous youth comics. A young artist informed by the Gekiga masters, this is a book for lovers of Seiichi Hayashi, Yoshiharu Tsuge, Shinichi Abe, Tadao Tsuge, Osamu Kanno: artists mining from an expressive, personal vein.

Collects several self-published works, as well as stories issued in alternative manga magazine Kakuu. Arantoochika was previously published in Glaeolia volume 1.
This release includes the artist’s afterword, as well as commentary by Fukumoto Masahisa and an additional note from the publisher.

Translation: zhuchka
Lettering: Lauren Eldon
Editing: emuh ruh
Design: emuh ruh

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A sparing glimpse of those shimmering, fragmented moments at the very end of the line…

“When I die, will you hear my story?” From the mind of Mukoubi Aoi, author of TO THE SEA, comes a beautiful and disturbing selection of their early sci-fi flavored short stories. A princess flees a doomed town; after a funeral, a child is haunted by a shadowy woman; a class mourns their departed fellow student in their own way; a scholar visits a relic site on the eve of its closing; a child says farewell to their only toy; a man visits an unfathomable, barbaric town… prepare yourself for these and many more: tantalizing, haunting, desolately beautiful fairy tales from which it may yet prove impossible to turn away.

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A quietly beautiful standalone story about mistaken identity, found family, and the profound power of art. Marco Kohinata’s warm, softly textured lines and shading subtly evoke the color and shape, the fullness and complexity of human emotion.

We’re proud to announce Marco’s debut English release, originally published in Japan by HERO’S and already translated in several languages abroad, has found a home with Glacier Bay Books and will be available in print format shortly. In fact, I’m happy to share that this book is already printing now!

Advance preorders are available through our site -> those customers will receive the book first, as well as a special preorder gift from Glacier Bay (TBA).

Details:

ISBN 978-1-953629-53-1
240 pages, A5 (approx. 5.8” x 8.3”) standard size

Black and white printing throughout, with colored pages. Printed on deluxe cream paper stock. Includes an afterword by the author. Akari features a monochrome cover enclosed within a full color dust jacket.

Translation – Jan Mitsuko Cash
Lettering – Kyla Aiko
Proofreading – Seann Hundt
Editing & Design – emuh ruh

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Natsujikei Miyazaki has been hailed as one of the most imaginative new cartoonists of her generation, and their works have been recognized on industry best-of lists and at the Japan Media Arts Festival.

…AND THE STRANGE AND FUNKY HAPPENINGS ONE DAY brings to life 33 small sci-fi fragments infused with an ecstatic sense of playfulness and wonder which slice through that mysterious, inescapable thing “everyday life”. A collection of short story masterpieces showcasing the dynamism of ordinary people under mundanely extraordinary circumstances.

A girl with near-nonexistent supernatural powers is actually just a normal kid, a potter who keeps breaking his own pottery, a man whose job is to put protective cling film on things yet struggles to protect what he treasures most, a boy who wakes up one day with a tag hanging from his ear labelled “Pull”, two people that are the only ones left on the planet and consider whether to risk meeting up in person, a group of planets return to their “home” orbit for a long overdue stardust reunion, and many, many more. Gorgeous and eclectic, these stories almost casually affirm what it means to live, and all ways of life.

ISBN 978-1-953629-34-0

Translation by zhuchka
Lettering by Tim Sun
Editing and Design by emuh ruh

Target Specifications

• Gatefold dust-jacketed cover with special under-jacket comic
• Sewn binding
• Deluxe paper stock for cover and internal text block
• Monochrome printing
• ~260 pages B6

WORDS ABOUT “…AND THE STRANGE AND FUNKY HAPPENINGS ONE DAY”

“a one woman anthology that feels like the author is doing a stand up routine of one liners in an alien language. another must by from Glacier Bay Books.” –ARTSCHOOLDROPOUT

“it was so good and so weird???? oh my god it was so weird i loved it” – Sara Mchl

“Just a bunch of weird, absurd, crazy shit that’s just entertaining. Just endlessly entertaining… I just loved this book” – Manga Machinations

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The second volume of Tsugawa’s comic “dream journal”. Building off of ‘Mermaid Town’ yet an entirely self-contained work, D’Artagnan’s Horse expands on the narrative and stylistic variety of the first collection bringing an even wider array of polished surreal dreamlike short stories. Includes 16 short comics in a startling variety of tones & settings, as well as the author’s detailed commentary essay, preface, and an afterword / bonus comic.

A5, approx. 100 pages. The same natural paper stock as Mermaid Town and with a complementary color edge stain and two spot ink cover. Binding is sewn perfect bound.

ISBN 978-1-953629-33-3

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░ DIGITAL EDITION ░

Combining a modern artistic approach with a whimsical vision of creation mythology, the story follows the titular “En-chan” who, becoming involved in a natural disaster at a convenience store, time shifts to herself as a 1 year old child…
Digital edition, collecting chapters 1-5. 116 pages.

Drawing with lines that combine the expressive and kinetic energy of Yuichi Yokoyama’s neo-manga with a stylistic looseness and freshness, and a fascination for the interplay of the domains of human and nature often portrayed in the works of Gao Yan and Tsung-Hsien Xue, Arisaka establishes herself as working in a completely modern idiom.

Editing & Design: emuh ruh
Translation: zhuchka
Lettering: Tim Sun

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