Beautiful Monster by Maruo Suehiro

18+ Mature Adults Only

Beautiful Monster by Maruo Suehiro
Translated by Ryan Holmberg
Two short essays by Maruo Suehiro and Michiro Endo (Singer of The Stalin)
216 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-7378264-3-9

“Suehiro Maruo is hardly unknown to manga readers in these hemispheres at all interested in the grotesque and the avant garde, but with little of his early works in English and years of absense, it is possible to forget the extent of his art's overpowering depravity under the power of its singularly vivid retro gothic aesthetic. Indie publisher Bubbles, with translator Ryan Holmberg, have dared to remind us with Beautiful Monster, a new collection reprinting some of Maruo's sickest stories. The result is something of a continuous slap in the face - any reader drawn in by Maruo's supple linework, elegant compositions, and erudite literary intertexts will immediately be agressed by feces, blood, cum and brutalization, less David Lynch and more Hisayasu Sato. The violence is largely misogynistic, occasionally homosexual - women's heads are bashed in, the stumps fucked. There is no escape.”
-Helen Chazan on Beautiful Monster in Comics Blogger #13