Halloween Special: the Yokai Guy
Manga master Shigeru Mizuki breathed new life into the undead
In 2013, I was hired to write the forward to an English-language collection of stories from Shigeru Mizuki’s Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro manga series. That book is now out of print, so I’m making an updated version of that essay available for everyone to read. Mizuki passed away in 2015 at the age of 93. English editions of Mizuki’s work are available from Draw…
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