{"product_id":"ninja-sarutobi-sasuke-isbn-9781681377858","title":"Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke","description":"\u003cb\u003eA classic character of Japanese literature is reimagined as a mischievous, shapeshifting adventurer in this zany, Pop Art–flavored gag manga by a titan of the genre.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNinja! Samurai! Cowboys! Aliens! Amoebas! Join Japan’s favorite ninja, Sarutobi Sasuke, on this psychedelic romp across a land beyond time by the legendary manga author and Pop Art pioneer Sugiura Shigeru. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this 1969 take on the beloved ninja, the carefree young Sasuke pranks his way through a radically reimagined old Japan, opening wormholes to America’s Wild West and outer space as he goes. This wild adventure overflows with eye-popping sights: UFOs, absurd monsters, Hollywood stars, gun-toting outlaws, submarines, towering mushroom clouds, and much more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable for the first time in English and with an essay by Ryan Holmberg, \u003ci\u003eNinja Sarutobi Sasuke\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for its trippy visuals and outrageous storytelling.“Eye-popping images rendered in styles both hyperrealistic and playfully  childish abound across virtually every panel of this long overdue  collection of classic comics. . . . Suguira Shigeru . . . reimagines  Sarutobi Sasuke, a heroic ninja from Japanese folklore, as an anarchic,  shape-shifting prankster set loose in feudal Japan to bedevil whoever  crosses his path. . . . Suguira Shigeru’s sense of design and bold use  of collage and montage effects result in an enjoyably silly and absurd  masterpiece of early psychedelic art.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“As a madcap tour of a truly artistic mind, \u003ci\u003eNinja Sarutobi Sasuke\u003c\/i\u003e is hard to beat” —Ross Locksley, \u003ci\u003eUK Anime Network\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This new edition is remarkable not just because of its prior rarity, but because of the simple purity of its construction…. A quote attributed to Picasso seems apt: \"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.\" \u003ci\u003e— \u003c\/i\u003eHoward Waldstein\u003ci\u003e, CBR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This eye-popping mash-up of kiddie cartoons and underground art is perfectly weird.\" —Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"For me, this is such a joyful and engaging process, that I find Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke to be a perfect comic in terms of what it is trying to achieve. The manifestations of Sugiura’s stream of consciousness narrative never cease to amaze me.” – James Bradshaw, \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Journal \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSugiura Shigeru \u003c\/b\u003e(1908–2000) was one of the most popular manga artists of the mid-twentieth century and a pioneer of Pop Art in Japan. Originally trained as a painter, he debuted as a cartoonist in 1932 under the tutelage of Tagawa Suihō, a leading author of children’s manga in the prewar period. In the 1950s, Sugiura himself became a star for his zany, slapstick children’s adventure comics featuring ninja, samurai, cowboys, aliens, and other fantastical characters culled from Japanese popular fiction, Hollywood movies, and American comic books. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he experienced a second boom in popularity, this time for absurdist, surrealistic comics drawn for an adult audience. Due to his inclusion in seminal art comics publications such as \u003ci\u003eRaw\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ganzfeld\u003c\/i\u003e, he is also recognized as a progenitor of avant-garde comics globally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRyan Holmberg\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning translator and historian of Japanese comics. He has worked on over three dozen books with publishers such as Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly, New York Review Comics, Bubbles, Living the Line, and Breakdown Press. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Translator Without Talent \u003c\/i\u003e(Bubbles, 2020) and \u003ci\u003eGaro Manga: The First Decade, 1964–1973\u003c\/i\u003e (Center for Book Arts, 2010). A full bibliography of his work can be found at mangaberg.com.","brand":"New York Review Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301217456357,"sku":"NP9781681377858","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681377858.jpg?v=1767733770","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ninja-sarutobi-sasuke-isbn-9781681377858","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}