A ragtag spaceship crew is stranded on a bizarre planet, and has to find a way to survive in such a hostile environment. Featured on Garo #8, 1968

A silent oneshot consisting of seven different stories. From Garo 1966-06.

Short parody by Namiki Tatsuji.

Sleeper Train by Masayuki Izumi captures a man's intense focus on enjoying a simple boxed meal during his train journey. With humor and a touch of drama, he carefully considers each element of the meal...

Published in Garo 1995-10

“WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON,” Prospero tells his spellbound captives. Prospero, robbed of his dukedom, has been marooned for many years on a wild island with his daughter Miranda. Now, finally, he...

The story is about conjoined twins, a boy and a girl, and how they - in the wake of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 - come to live with a travelling freak show. -from Caterpillar

Adapted into an NHK drama.

From Garo 1982-08.

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud collects the best short stories from Kuniko Tsurita’s remarkable career. While the works of her male peers in literary manga are widely reprinted, this formally ambitious and...

Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the...

A film crew is searching for Kuniko Tsurita. Everyone they meet has a different story to tell, some true, some just rumors. Features cameo apperances from Akira Ogawa, Shigeru Mizuki, Yuu Takita, Yoshiharu...

A tale of unrequited love, and Dragon Quest.

Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tastsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary short stories about the private lives of everyday people. He...

A child fantasizes about his life next to an imaginary older brother; another runs away from home following the sound of a harmonica; a woman responds to marginalization by illuminating the streets of her...

Tadao Tsuge was one of the key contributors to the legendary avant-garde Japanese comics magazine Garo during its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s, renowned for his unpretentious journalistic...

A collection of short stories.