Illustrations of the Strange

Seigensha Art Publishing

The occult craze of the 1960s and 1970s in Japanese comics, magazines, films and popular culture produced countless bizarre stories and creatures. Many of these tropes – from leviathans and hordes of zombies to monstrous insects and terrifying ghosts – laid the foundations for themes that continue to this day in both Japan and the West.

This book offers a vast collection of illustrations by Shigeru Komatsuzaki, Gojin Ishihara, Takashi Minamimura and other master illustrators, which have appeared in a wide variety of media.

Presented in five categories – the Psychic, Unexplored Regions, Grotesque, Cold-Blooded and Wild, and Hysteria and Madness – it is a legacy of rich imagination, waiting to be enjoyed anew.