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However, when the movie Alien came out, it was turned into a comic, so I do have that, but overall I don't read Western comics. I don't really read a whole lot of Western comics, nor Japanese comics. Do you read many North American or European comics? It’s quite monumental because the award has never been given to a mangaka, and in the western comics industry the Eisners are a huge deal. I would be remiss to not bring up your recent win at the Eisner Awards for Best Writer/Artist. So, the ones in Japan fly, and they’re quite big. They do not fly, but they are hard to kill. That's subsided now, but being older now, um, yeah, I'm a lot more afraid of death. In my youth, when I'd be walking around town, I would actually be scared of being stalked or being watched. You’ve referred a few times in this interview to getting older. It will be in my next book, The Liminal Zone, and that’s one I’m very excited about. So there is a recent one in my upcoming collection of shorts, um, that has been translated on the US side.
So I love physical comedy and also surrealist comedy, where you can't quite explain it with words, but it's funny. He’s a little ancient, but there's something that still rings true in the 21st century. It’s pretty common to have a duo in Japan and I love those. A lot of times in the US it'll be a single comedian. I'm not sure how familiar you are with the specificity of Japanese comedy and comedians. One of the more unsung elements of your work is how funny it can be, so I’m curious: what makes you laugh? So I took that idea and wove it into the story. It was intended to just be a one-off story, but during the writing of Sensor I thought oh, I need to put in a really good idea here. And specifically for the suicide bugs, that fundamental idea already existed. This is, of course, if these discoveries go well, because sometimes they don't. For a long story, I will usually sit down and have a plot planned out, but Sensor’s approach of having no particular premeditated ending actually ended up resulting in more ideas, unexpected ideas, then finding a plot from there. What you said is very true about the windy path of storytelling. But that approach allows for something like the chapter with the suicide bugs, and that’s one of the more disturbing things you’ve ever drawn. It certainly reads like a story that isn’t afraid to go off the path of the main narrative. Ito called GQ from his home in Japan to talk about the unique approach he took to Sensor, his historic win at the 2021 Eisner Awards, and how he keeps up one of the more demanding publishing schedules in all of comics. With a winding narrative that at various points touches on time travel, warring cosmic gods, and bulbous bugs possessed by the souls of suicide victims, it’s a wholly unique installment in Ito-sensei’s oeuvre. His catalog can be read as a long-term exploration of the multitude of ways in which a human body can be mutated or mutilated.īut the terror of Sensor feels more of a piece with the work of David Lynch than influences like HP Lovecraft and Kazuo Umezu. These works, like many others from his vast bibliography, center on imagery that combines body horror, psychological terror, and dark comedy. For nearly 40 years, Ito has been one of the most recognizable names in manga thanks to stories like Gyo, the tale of a world overrun by walking fish corpses that reek of death, and Uzumaki, which features among other horrifying imagery a jack-in-the-box made of human remains (an animated adaptation is coming to AdultSwim soon).
You’d be forgiven for expecting Sensor, the latest book from horror manga legend Junji Ito, to be more graphic.
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