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Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke

Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke

by Sugiura Shigeru, translated from the Japanese and with an introduction by Ryan Holmberg

$24.95
$24.95
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Ninja! 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.

In 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.

Available for the first time in English and with an essay by Ryan Holmberg, Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke is a must-read for its trippy visuals and outrageous storytelling.

Additional Book Information

Series: New York Review Comics
ISBN: 9781681377858
Pages: 264
Publication Date:

Praise

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.
—Library Journal

As a madcap tour of a truly artistic mind, Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke is hard to beat
— Ross Locksley, UK Anime Network

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.
— Howard Waldstein CBR

This eye-popping mash-up of kiddie cartoons and underground art is perfectly weird
—Publishers Weekly

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 The Comics Journal

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