Collection of stories.

A collection of sixteen early works by Nishioka Kyodai, including their three-part debut series. As always the stories range from the whimsical to the surreal, with tales of serial killers, bird women, and a man who one day wakes to find himself with a pouch like a kangaroo.

(Source: MU)

1. Jump
2. Boku Mushi
3. Aru Kinzoku Bat Jisatsu
4. Mono no Okibasho
5. Torikago
6. Kaze no Fuiteiru Hi
7. Ame no Futteiru Hi
8. Nichiyoubi
9. Tanjoubi
10. Satsujinki-P no Noroi
11-12. Yoru
13. Harigane
14. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Tobirabito
15. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Kangaroo no Matsuei
16. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Shinkei

Adaptation of Franz Kafka's stories.

1. The Cares of a Family Man
2. The Metamorphosis
3. The Bucket Rider
4. Jackals and Arabs
5. A Fratricide
6. The Vulture
7. A Country Doctor
8. A Hunger Artist
9. In the Penal Colony

Weird, tripped-out Japanese comics. Subtly twisted, delicately detailed but with a strong line, with elongated bodies and shades of Art Deco. Somewhat reminiscent of both Gorey and Dali by way of Edvard Munch, but the style is unique and distinctive and very much the artist's own. About as far as you can get from manga and still be in the same country.

Laura was abandoned in the forest as a baby and raised by wolves.

Nishioka Kyoudai's anti-war epic, told in their signature surrealist style.A man wakes up one morning to find the world outside of his house a wasteland. As he searches for signs of life, he finds a fetus in a ditch, which promptly latches onto his thumb and won't let go, and things only get stranger from there...