The Pits of Hell offers nine stories that established Ebisu as one of the leading figures of the ugly-but-amazing ‘heta-uma’ movement, the Japanese equivalent of punk and new wave. (Source: Breakdown Press)

One of Hayashi's early contributions to the alternative manga magazine Garo, Flowering Harbour is a love story filtered through the aesthetics of enka music, known informally as "Japanese blues".

More than twenty years before the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi reactors in 2011, Katsumata Susumu was using his cartooning skills to alert Japanese to the dangers of nuclear power. Inspired by Katsumata's research trips to the now notorious facility and his background in physics, Fukushima Devil Fish begins with two stories from the 1980s on the subject of nuclear gypsies", the men who labor under oppressive conditions to maintain Japan's fleet of "nuclear power plants. The book then cycles back to the late 1960s and 1970s with a group of stories, originally published in the legendary alt-manga magazines Garo and COM, populated with creatures from Japanese folklore and lonely young men bereft of home and family. At turns haunting and endearing, Fukushima Devil Fish reveals Katsumata as both a master of comics as a poetic form and a true friend to the victims of Japan's modernization. The collection is rounded out with a suite of essays by the artist, historian Asakawa Mitsuhiro, and critic Abe Yukihiro, which illuminate Katsumata's life and career and the importance of his work in a post-Fukushima world. (Source: Breakdown Press)

Ballistic buzzing guided camera drones, terrorizing fur and feathers. Drip drop drop top inside your futuristic RV Zen boombox, and then you float away. There’s nothing like a trip into the great unknown with avant-garde manga artist Yokoyama Yuichi. Originally published in Japanese in 2009, Outdoors is another rip-roaring eye feast and ear bomb by the cult author of New Engineering, Travel, and Iceland. (Source: Breakdown Press)

Originally published in 1982, I Wish I Was Stupid surpasses in shamelessness the artist’s cult classic Pits of Hell. With 13 stories about love, family, work and raging frustration culled from avant-garde porn mags and Garo, Ebisu probes dangerously deep into the inner mucosal of the human condition. If you’ve ever considered setting your child on fire, pooping with double buttholes, or windmilling your dingdong, this book is for you. *Source: Breakdown Press*

1. Tengoku de Miru Yume (A Dream in Heaven) 2. Henri to Anne no Ballad (The Ballad of Henri and Anne) 3. Seventeen 4. Umibe no Machi (Seaside Town) 5. Machi no Uma (The Town Horse) 6. Bouya, Kawaii Bouya (Little Boy, Cute Little Boy) 7. Vietnam Touron (The Vietnam Debate) 8. Kanashii Max (Sad Max) 9. Kyodai na Zou II 10. Summer Course 11. Soda Fountain 12. Minato no Marie (Harbour Marie) 13. Bunruigaku Nyuumon 14. Chee-Chee Hat 15. Keikigeki: Sabaku no Medama (A Light Comedy: Eyeball of the Desert) 16. Pickles-gai Ibun (Strange Tales of Pickles Street) 17. Ding Dong Circus 18. Bad Moon (The Bad Moon) 19. Fukurou to Koneko-chan 20. Tawagoto-shi-tachi Kotenteki Abekobe Lock 21. 6-gatsu no Inseki 22. J.J. Picard Shi no Hanashi no Tsuzuki 1 23. J.J. Picard Shi no Hanashi no Tsuzuki 2 24. Boku no Debuinko-chan 25. Scat Taisa no Kiroku 26. Shoukasen Otoko 27. Tabi no Tenshi 28. Dokusho no Tashinami 29. Dr. Aesop 30. Doutoku Manga 31. Muteki no Zokubutsu 32. Sorezore no Asa 33. Suna ni Kieta Tamida 34. No Kid No Cry 35. Make a Fake 36. Hijou no Okite 37. Half Crazy

A definitive, career-spanning collection of stories from one of Japan’s most famous alternative cartoonists. Totalling more than 250 pages, Red Red Rock collects over a dozen of Hayashi Seiichi’s most famous stories from his most prolific period, spanning his debut for Garo in 1967 to his adult work for Josei Jishin in 1969-70. Manga included: The Devil, His Son, and the Uneatable Soul Oh, in the Dawn's Early Light Our Mother Giant Fish American Born Celluloid Flower Falling Town Flower Poem Red Enamel Shoes Red Red Rock Red Bird Little Bird Red Handkerchief Madam D