FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! It’s time for another exclusive preview today at BF as part of our Fantagraphics celebrations. Today’s it’s the turn of Shintaro Kago’s The Ultra Power Mongol Invasion…
In 2018, manga artist Shintaro Kago burst onto the comic scene with his English debut: Dementia 21 (reviewed here at Broken Frontier), a collection of absurdist short stories. Reminiscent of…
Shintaro Kago’s Dementia 21 is a surprising graphic novel in that it takes his well-known ability to render characters in grotesque situations and uses it as a way to tackle…
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