{"product_id":"marmalade-princess-isbn-9781770469464","title":"Marmalade Princess","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe urban slacker novella \u003ci\u003eMarmalade Princess\u003c\/i\u003e marks reclusive manga-ka Ito Shigeo’s English-language debut\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarmalade Princess\u003c\/i\u003e is a five-part graphic novella deliberately told out of order. Drawn in wiry black inks and filled in with distinct 80s pops of bright color reminiscent of Warhol’s latter-day prints, it follows a pack of trendy youths on what has all the makings of a madcap summer adventure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarmalade Princess\u003c\/i\u003e showcases Ito’s previously uncollected short comics fiction across a number of post-Garo alt-manga magazines such as \u003ci\u003eYakou, Comic Baku,\u003c\/i\u003e and the famed \u003ci\u003eA*Ha\u003c\/i\u003e–the Esso-sponsored monthly manga magazine that published the likes of Guido Crepax and Gary Panter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIto Shigeo’s comics center aimless urbanites in their mid-teens and early 20s. A prolific yet elusive manga-ka of the 1980s, he stopped publishing comics in 1991. After a Japanese folk rocker put Ito’s art on a 2020 album cover, interest in the author’s work spiked, prompting the republication of his short stories in Japan. \u003ci\u003eMarmalade Princess\u003c\/i\u003e is translated by prolific literary translator David Boyd.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158840144101,"sku":"NP9781770469464","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/marmalade-princess-isbn-9781770469464","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}