Short Cuts, Volume 2

Series Description: So just what is with this fascination for the Japanese teenage girl? We’re talking about the extreme variant of her — that highly evolved creature of Japan’s frantically trendy consumer culture: the ko-gall And just what goes on inside a ko-gal’s overstimulated mind? Short Cuts is a surreal illustrated journey into the ko-gal’s world created by Usamaru Furuya, one of Japan’s most esteemed avant-garde comic artists. In this second and final volume of his Short Cuts series, Furuya revisits the gallery of bizarre comic characters introduced in the first entry: classroom bunny Mariko, obsessive Zero Boy, and Bigfoot Muku, and stranger beings still. A treat for fans of the cutting edge of comics art, as well as anyone wanting to get current on the latest Tokyo fads, this volume contains a tsunami of surreal gags and teenage madness, all rendered in Furuya’s trademark mixture of peerless art and innovative layouts.