Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby
Takashi NemotoA seminal work of manga from the mid-1980s, Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby is a Candide-esque tale–if you can picture Candide as a mutated sperm brought to life by radioactivity. Unremittingly explicit, this is the comics equivalent of Henry Miller at his best: direct, honest and insightful while simultaneously beautiful and grotesque. Tokyo-based Takashi Nemoto, who was born in 1958, has been called the R. Crumb of Japan: Nemoto and Crumb share a similar, surreal drawing style and pessimistic, satirical stance, for which both have faced their share of negative criticism. Due to his unapologetically squalid subject matter, Nemoto has long been a controversial figure in Japan–clashing violently with mainstream Japanese morals–and is just now receiving some critical success there.
| status | Copy #1 (24140): in |
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| genre | Humor and Satire » Classic Comics |
| publisher | Picture Box Inc |
| publish date | 2008 |
| popularity | checked out 0 time(s) |