Red Tights Man - Imiri Sakabashira

Japanese Publication

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Red Tights Man by Imiri Sakabashira, 2019 revised edition, expanded and with 8 pages in color / ISBN 9784883794614 / In Japanese, though many pages have no words. The imagery is mysterious and often completely unhinged.

Parts of this were included in the 2010 Drawn & Quarterly English book The Box Man (which they call a "near-wordless psychedelic travelogue") -- though this 2019 Japanese version is 232 pages and the English one is 128 pages.

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"People and mysterious creatures move on scooters and bizarre vehicles like road movies in the remote areas and ruins of Asia."

Born in 1964, Imiri Sakabashira is part of the Japanese underground generation centering around publications like Garo and AX. His work has been exhibited in the Trancepop Gallery in Kyoto and the Billiken Gallery in Tokyo.

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