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from a reprint of the 1976 picture book Takeru by Masakane Yonekura

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Forgot to mention here that 50 Watts published another book (the most obviously on-brand book I published so far): Anthropomorphic Japan: The Frogs

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Michael Hausmann, detail of a lithograph for Faust by Goethe, Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, Sept 1981

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Cheat Sheets - The Comics Journal

Despite the dominance of Japanese manga on comics worldwide, Americans can still take pride in having planted the initial seeds. Osamu Tezuk

Wrote about Tiger Tateishi over The Comics Journal. If you remember when these pages first hit Tumblr, I think you'll be psyched to learn there's a book a of them now. And if you haven't seen them before, check it out, they're very cool.

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Details from a comic by Tiger Tateishi, found in Cheat Sheets, just published by Nieves & 50 Watts (!)

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Panel by Shigeru Sugiura (1908–2000)

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One of the few non-disturbing panels from a Jiro Ishikawa comic - scanned from the French book "C'est comme ca"

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from Girl with Man's Legs by Yukio Tani

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found in Tombs - Junji Ito Story Collection

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Ute Osterwalder, scientific illustration found in the November 1981 issue of Novum Gebrauchsgraphik

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Imiri Sakabashira, from a kaiju postcard set

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A 1984 Japanese collection of 1950s American science fiction

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From Prismatik Man by Stathis Tsemberlidis

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Detail from The Gnomes' Winter Journey by Ernst Kreidolf (1924)

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Genpei Akasegawa, screw type silk screen, 1969

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from 山内神斧と吾八の時代 (Yamauchi Shinto and the Age of Gohachi)

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1982 Japanese paperback of A Soldier Erect by Brian Aldiss, cover signed Nakanishi