Overview
A 2024 NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SELECTION FOR BEST NEW COMICS OF 2024 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 10 MUST-READ MANGA OF 2024 Dare to read the psycho-horror classic that horror manga master Ito Junji called a “frightening but moving story about an unfortunate individual who, lost in search of his true self, finds his own annihilation instead.” Little Tetsuo is a wimpy mess. His parents don’t love him. He meets the beautiful Kimiko, an ailing teenage girl obsessed with movies and mayhem in equal amounts. She doesn’t love Tetsuo either, or anyone other than herself. But she needs him. So Tetsuo becomes the man she wants—the monster she wants. He becomes HER FRANKENSTEIN! Originally published in 1986, Kawashima Norikazu’s HER FRANKENSTEIN marks the bizarre and sadomasochistic finale to a cult era in Japanese horror comics. A few years after it was published, the author burned all of his artwork and abandoned Tokyo, never to be heard from again! HER FRANKENSTEIN is the inaugural volume of SMUDGE, a line of pulp, horror, and dark mystery manga, curated and translated into English by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.
Full Product Details
Author: Norikazu Kawashima ,
Ryan Holmberg ,
Norikazu Kawashima
Publisher: Living the Line LLC
Imprint: Living the Line LLC
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.295kg
ISBN: 9781961581913
ISBN 10: 1961581914
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 21 May 2024
Recommended Age: From 16 years
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED) -- ""Kawashima's suspenseful thriller is cinematic and beautiful, full of the indelible imagery--an eerily calm seascape, a discarded mask, a featureless face--that established him as one of the leading names in Japanese horror comics. It's a must-read for fans of Junji Ito and Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters."""
""If horror is your genre, don't pass this one up. It's grim and fascinating, and the extensive essay about the creator adds some excellent context and history to the book."" — Anime News Network ""If horror is your genre, don't pass this one up. It's grim and fascinating, and the extensive essay about the creator adds some excellent context and history to the book."" — Anime News Network PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED) -- ""Kawashima’s suspenseful thriller is cinematic and beautiful, full of the indelible imagery—an eerily calm seascape, a discarded mask, a featureless face—that established him as one of the leading names in Japanese horror comics. It’s a must-read for fans of Junji Ito and Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters."" PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED) -- ""Kawashima’s suspenseful thriller is cinematic and beautiful, full of the indelible imagery—an eerily calm seascape, a discarded mask, a featureless face—that established him as one of the leading names in Japanese horror comics. It’s a must-read for fans of Junji Ito and Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.""
