Publisher draw and quarter announced on Friday that it would issue Yokai: The Art of shigeru mizuki The company is hosting a 12-page preview of the book in October.
The publisher describes the full-color hardcover book:
Yokai: The Art of shigeru mizuki not only demonstrates his expertise of folklore, but celebrates him as a naturalist. The elements of Mizuki’s lush compositions—flora, fauna, and everything in between—demonstrate her mastery of form and love of nature. These popular renditions of disappearing rural Japan are their contribution to the preservation of a cultural heritage that would otherwise have been forgotten. The grotesque realism at the center of his body of work is offset by his imaginative ingenuity for the macabre. The pieces in this deluxe, full-color edition keep Maurice Sendak’s playful pop-sensibilities informed by the technical prowess of traditionalists like Dürer and Doré. And like any other Mizuki classic, each masterpiece is a unique snapshot of a soul, human or otherwise, in constant transition.
The book will feature supplementary writing by Mizuki scholar and translator Jack Davison,
North American Publisher draw and quarter Many of Mizuki’s works have been released in English, such as non non be, Hitler, marching towards our great deathAnd Showa: History of Showa Japan ,comic showa-shi), two of whom were nominated for a Harvey Award in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Mizuki’s Showa 1939–1944: A History of Japan and Showa 1944–1953: A History of Japan The manga won the 2015 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best US Version of International Content-Asia. The company recently published a manga adaptation of Kunio Yanigata’s Mizuki. Tono Monogatari Collection of folk tales recorded in March 2021.
mizuki is famous about his manga yōkai – Japanese supernatural creatures. his manga and research yōkai largely responsible for the popularity of yōkai Stories today. mizuki’s supernatural manga Kitaro ,GeGeGe no Kitarō) started in 1959 under the name hakaba kitaro, The stories center on an Inhuman boy who straddles the line between the human and supernatural worlds. draw and quarter Has also published a selection of manga in English.
Mizuki died in November 2015 at the age of 93.
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