Desert Island

XO by Chris Day, new from Perfectly Acceptable press

Desert Island welcomes Kawakatsu Tokushige this Friday for an author signing of his new book The Cursed Body from Glacier Bay Books. Come meet this talented indie Japanese artist, selected by MINT manga to represent Japan’s modern manga culture.

Kawakatsu served as editor of the Kakù doujinshi alternative manga magazine, and periodically self-releases the magazine Kagyu (The Snail), from which both stories in The Cursed Body are drawn. Both stories draw heavily on traditional Japanese ghost stories (kaiki) and historical rental manga (kashihon) to deliver deep, surreal, and spooky reads.