![]() ![]() ![]() Eye Scream: Eyeballs are good for licking, and stabbing, and forking out.Enfant Terrible: Most of the atrocities in his stories are committed by children or teenagers.Art Imitates Art: His mangas contain so many homages to Western paintings and German cinema, you can play a Drinking Game with them.Tropes commonly found in the works of Suehiro Maruo: Imomushi ( The Caterpillar) (2009) - another Rampo adaptation.The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (2008) - adaptation of a novel by Edogawa Rampo.New Atrocities In Blood (1988) - a modern reworking of Muzan-e (atrocity prints) genre of Ukiyo-e.Maruo's growing fame then allowed him to publish longer stories, of which Mr Arashi's Amazing Freak Show has garnered him an international cult following. The America-published anthology Ultra-Gash Inferno contains the more "readable" stories of early Maruo, while the rest are sometimes available as Scanlation. ![]() Indeed, many of his early strips are incomprehensible. Maruo started his career by providing short strips for porn magazines, because, as he says, they would publish anything as long as there is nudity and sex. In the manga subgenre known as Ero-guro (Erotic-grotesque), Suehiro Maruo (born January 28, 1956) is renown for his beautifully-composed, exquisitely-crafted scenes influenced by Japanese Ukiyo-e prints on one hand, and the canon of Western fine art on the other. ![]()
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