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]]> by Imai Arata. Published OCT/NOV 2024.

Torch Manga-Award winning post-QAnon manga about the brutal fallout of the 2022 assassination of former prime minister of Japan Abe Shinzo, viral posts and social media lynching, conspiracy theories, and how these all come to intersect on a totally normal jobless guy and a high schooler.

ISBN 978-1-953629-38-8

Translation by Ryan Holmberg
Lettering by Lauren Eldon
Editing by Ryan Holmberg and emuh ruh
Design by emuh ruh.

  • 248 pages sewn binding A5 format softcover with french flaps
  • cream interior paper stock
  • monochrome interiors (black ink), color covers
  • back matter contains an interview with the author, by Zach Godin and Ryan Holmberg (translation + interpretation)

 

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]]> F https://glacierbaybooks.com/product/f/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=f Fri, 30 Jul 2021 23:53:30 +0000 https://glacierbaybooks.com/?post_type=product&p=8664 By Imai Arata. (2024 reprint edition)

ISBN 978-1-953629-09-8
format: A5, 224 pages, including an essay by Ryan Holmberg.
offset printing. B/W text with color covers + half-dustjacket.
paper: uncoated, with creamy text stock.
binding: sewn otabinding (lay flat binding).

Available in print, published November 2021.

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]]> “F imagines Fukushima as a kind of Syria in the fallout of the 3.11 disaster, and follows a British journalist’s infiltration of the region while brutal foreign forces strike into the heart of the remnants of northern Japan.”

[ The tsunami and nuclear meltdowns of 2011 seem like yesterday. Wreckage still litters Japan’s coastline. Fukushima’s fields are piled high with contaminated soil. Tohoku, northern Japan, furious about how they have been treated by Tokyo, has seceded from the union. The rebels, known as the Nihonmatsu Front, are battling the more heavily armed Japanese government along the southern border of Fukushima. Meanwhile, they are being overwhelmed internally by a faction who call themselves the State of F. Composed of radicalized Tohoku natives and foreign guerrillas, the black-clad F knows only absolute obedience and cutthroat terror.

Though virtually unknown in its home country, Imai Arata’s F is the edgiest work of manga made in the wake of the 2011 disasters. Crossing splintery drawings of the devastations wrought by the tsunami and meltdowns with images sourced from Islamic State propaganda from the Middle East, F trespasses upon many taboos regarding political expression and etiquette in Japan. Originally self-published and sold at avant-garde art exhibitions, Imai’s F is truly underground. It deserves to become a classic.  ]

ISBN 978-1-953629-09-8

translator: Ryan Holmberg
editing: Ryan Holmberg & Emuh Ruh
lettering: zhuchka & Tim Sun
book+cover design: Emuh Ruh

printings
1st printing – 2021
2nd printing – 2024

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