“If you’re interested in trippy, hippie shit and like weird manga, this is the book you were seeking. It’s also beautifully designed, and the work is presented in a friendly and pretty way.” — Nick Gazin, Vice
“To pick up the latest issue of Garo and see a new Maki work felt like opening a door onto another world. When you opened that door, a new special wind rushed in, from who knew where. It filled my lungs and made me feel like fresh blood coursed through my body.” — Haruki Murakami
Finally! A new edition of the long-out of print Ding Dong Cicus.
This collection re-presents, for the first time in English, the best of Sasaki Maki's work, mainly from alt-manga super magazine Garo. Drawn between 1967 and 1974, the fifteen stories here follow Sasakia's groundbreaking exploration of collage methods in comics storytelling, weaving through references to R&B, rock & roll, the Vietnam War, Andy Warhol, the Summer of Love, the Beatles, British humour, and the wacky world of Japanese consumerism. Ding Dong Circus demonstrates what manga fans already knew: that in Sasaki Maki, Japan can claim not only a pioneer in experimental comics, but one of the world's masters of Pop Art and a trenchant avant-garde critic of the Sixties. Published by Breakdown Press.
