Box Man HC

Description

"Imiri Sakabashira is one of the most influential gekiga-kas of the past two decades. THE BOX MAN is the first translated-into-English book from this Garo contributor, acclaimed animator, and musician--a near-wordless fascinatingly psychedelic travelogue that weaves together a seamless tapestry of folklore, kaiju, surrealism, and Japanese and American pop culture.

A hooded guide on a scooter, along with his anthropomorphic mollusk-like cat sidekick, takes us through the strange world of Sakabashira's subconscious--a landscape that oscillates between a dense (above- and underground) city and a countryside simplified to near abstraction. Fantastical everyday absurdities include a creepy goggle-eyed voyeur, several wrestling monsters and their human captives, a flying frog, a Godzilla, a cadre of policemen, and a mysterious package. Lines are blurred between the animate and inanimate, the real and the imagined. THE BOX MAN is a literal ""wild ride;"" a stunningly visceral tour de force that pushes even the limitless storytelling boundaries of the comic book medium."