More of Ito’s shorter subjects fill-out the rest of the book.įrankenstein seems like a weird choice at first glance.
The first half of the collection features Ito’s adaptation of the legendary Mary Shelley story. And now, Frankenstein is the latest to join the mix. The two compilations Shiver and Fragments of Horror showcase some of the master’s acclaimed graphic shorts. Uzumaki, along with other Ito classics Gyo and Tomie, are available in beautiful hardcover omnibus editions. And fortunate for everyone, more of Ito’s amazing work is finally finding wider distribution abroad. Long-out-of-print copies of his Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection and Museum of Terror anthologies sold for top-dollar, meaning scanlations of dubious quality where the only option for a teenager working a minimum wage job such as myself.įortunately for me, I’m not as broke as I once was. Uzumaki, along with much of Ito’s other work, was only available in English intermittently. It would take years before I could track down my own copies of all three volumes of the series. I cracked it open, and was instantly obsessed. The only ornamentation was a subtle spiral pattern I couldn’t quite make out, along with the title and author credit scrawled in scratchy lettering: UZUMAKI by Junji Ito.
I was a big manga fan, and one of my classmates who shared my interest passed me a copy of a book I’d never heard of. I was first introduced to Ito’s work in high school. Over the last thirty-plus years, he’s put out some of the most surreal and horrifying, yet genuinely beautiful comics you’re likely to find. If you’ve been on the internet long enough, you’ve probably seen Ito’s work in a dozen different memes and image macros:Īnyone possessing even a modest familiarity with either horror comics or Japanese horror should be familiar with the name. And this new volume is just what the mad scientist ordered for your Halloween reading.
Frankenstein is the latest in a new run of hardcover releases from Viz Media showcasing the work of Japanese horror master Junji Ito.
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