Gold Pollen and Other Stories
10 best books like Gold Pollen and Other Stories (Seiichi Hayashi): Oishinbo a la carte, Volume 2 - Sake, The End of the Fucking World, Strange Tale of Panorama Island, Good-Bye, The Box Man, Opus, Black Blizzard, Helter Skelter, A Single Match, Red Snow
Oishinbo a la carte, Volume 2 - Sake
| Author | Tetsu Kariya |
| ISBN | 1421521407 |
R to L (Japanese Style)As part of the celebrations for its 100th anniversary, the publishers of the Tozai News have decided to commission the creation of the 'Ultimate Menu," a model meal embodying the pinnacle of Japanese cuisine. This all-important task has been entrusted to journalist Shiro Yamaoka,...
The End of the Fucking World
| Author | Charles Forsman |
| ISBN | 1606996673 |
'At 16, I pretended to fall in love with Alyssa.'
Meet James and Alyssa, two teenagers facing the fears of coming adulthood. As their story is told through chapters which alternate each character's perspective, however, this somewhat familiar teenage experience takes a more nihilistic...
Strange Tale of Panorama Island
| Author | Suehiro Maruo |
| ISBN | 0867197323 |
Spoiler Alert! no, wait, I guess not. it's in the title after all. right there, front and center: Panorama Island. specifically the various Panoramas of various World Fairs of a century or so ago. and thus the island's great secret is blown.
no matter. Strange Tale is less about secrets waiting...
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1897299370 |
“Prepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing.”—Los Angeles Times
Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected...
| Author | Imiri Sakabashira |
| ISBN | 1897299915 |
THE FIRST STORY TO BE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FROM THE SURREALIST AND ALTERNATIVE MANGA-KA
Enter the strange world of Imiri Sakabashira, whose denizens are zoomorphic creatures that emerge from one another as well as their equally bizarre environs. The Box Man follows its protagonists along...
| Author | Satoshi Kon |
| ISBN | 1616556064 |
Brilliant anime director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue) died tragically young in 2010 at the age of forty-six. But before he became a director, he was a manga artist, and Dark Horse is honored to remember Kon with the release of Satoshi Kon’s...
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1770460128 |
THE PREEMMINENT GEKIGA-KA'S FIRST GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM FIFTY YEARS AGO
Created in the late 1950s,Black Blizzard is Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s remarkable first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. Tatsumi documented how his love for Mickey Spillane and...
| Author | Kyoko Okazaki |
| ISBN | 3551786348 |
Through round after round of extensive plastic surgery and vigorous maintenance, Ririko has become the absolute manifestation of beauty, and becomes a wildly successful model, actress and singer. However, soon her body, unable to withstand the burdens of surgery, begins to crumble, and along with...
| Author | Oji Suzuki |
| ISBN | 1770460098 |
A new author in D+Q’s acclaimed gekiga line
In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs the dissolute depths of human...
| Author | Susumu Katsumata |
| ISBN | 1897299869 |
Continuing D+Q's groundbreaking exploration of the fascinating world of Gekiga, this collection of short stories is drawn with great delicacy and told with subtle nuance by the legendary Japanese artist Susumu Katsumata. The setting is the premodern Japanese countryside of the author's youth,...
GoGo Monster has become a reference buoy in my life. When I am adrift (and I am often adrift, sometimes pleasantly sometimes harrowingly) and I need to catch some sight or sign of home, some home lived only ever within my skin, some look-back to a complex of early feelings - feelings of awkwardness and alienation,...
Oishinbo a la carte, Volume 6 - The Joy of Rice
A quest for the ultimate menu! R to L (Japanese Style). "The Joy of Rice" In this volume of Oishinbo, Yamaoka and company look into the single most essential food in Japanese cuisine: rice. Cultivated for millennia, a staple meal in itself and the basis of countless other dishes, rice is an important component...
Ding Dong Circus: And Other Stories, 1967 to 1974
| Author | Maki Sasaki |
| ISBN | 0957438125 |
Ding Dong Circus collects the best of Sasaki Maki's work from alt-manga super magazine Garo. Drawn between 1967 and 1974, the fifteen stories within follow Sasaki's unprecedented exploration of collage methods in comics storytelling. Weaving through references to the Beatles, the Vietnam War,...
| Author | Mark Beyer |
| ISBN | 0394754425 |
Colson Whitehead's introduction is superb as a way of helping us understand what Beyer may have been trying to do with this comic, collected from the eighties. He notes identifying markers such as its inclusion in Raw, The fabulous Furry Brothers stoner comic, Charles Burns's Nutso Boy, even Beckett....
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1606999052 |
Patience is a psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially “Clowesian” and utterly unique in the author’s body of work. This 180-page, full-color original graphic novel...
| Author | Yusaku Hanakuma |
| ISBN | 0867197013 |
Tokyo Zombie is a horror-comedy manga about two blue-collar factory workers (who happen to be jiu-jitsu experts) dealing with a zombie uprising in Tokyo. When the story begins, Fujio and Mitsuo are dreaming of training in martial arts overseas and becoming famous. When they accidentally kill their...
X-Men: Grand Design - Second Genesis
| Author | Ed Piskor |
| ISBN | 1302904906 |
The sequel to the critical smash hit X-MEN GRAND DESIGN is here - and it's ALL-NEW and ALL-DIFFERENT! Witness Wolverine, Thunderbird, Colossus, Storm, and Sunfire suit up as X-Men for the very first time all over again! And then the Shi'ar! The Brood! The Starjammers! Watch as Marvel's merry mutants...
パラノイア・スター (Paranoia Star)
El título que tiene en español es «Paranoia star». Es excelente encontrar en estas historias una parte genuina de la creatividad del autor (que podría ser incómoda para muchos lectores). Cuando lo hacen los escritores suele perderse el contenido en la incomprensión; en el caso de Maruo no sucede...
