Children of Mu-Town

$20.00

By Masumura Jūshichi, published by Glacier Bay Books, April 2021. A5 format, soft touch covers and a sewn otabinding. ISBN 978-1-953629-03-6 208 pages, offset B/W printing with color covers. Digital edition here. Discount coupon for ordering the digital and print editions (at the same time): 3ZJ9K6U3 Stylistically intermingling themes of gentrification and rebirth within the…

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Description

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

Reviews

The Comics Journal
“…There is an appropriate perfection to Masumura’s draftsmanship, one that becomes more evident the longer you dwell in these pages. and the more often you return to them. In every illustration, one thing will slowly reach your attention as impeccably rendered – each stiffly gestural mark comes alive with the variety of weights and textures applied. The craft on display here has the personality we want when we ask for “alternative” comics or “independent” comics: that beautiful feeling of reading a work of personal observation; lines that feel like a human voice of their own; a pen or brush on paper telling you in every way possible a story about the person whose hand guided such words and pictures into being.”

Comic Books Are Burning in Hell
“…some of the most politically prescient manga now available in English to the discerning reader…”

Manga Machinations Podcast

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Weight 13.5 oz
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