I Wish I Was Stupid (light damage) - Ebisu Yoshikazu

I Wish I Was Stupid by Ebisu Yoshikazu, Translated by Ryan Holmberg / ISBN 9781911081258 / 184-page paperback with flaps, 5.8 x 8.25 inches, published in 2023 by Breakdown Press (UK) / a bonkers artist, buyer beware The bottom of some pages have small tears from rough shipping & warehouse handling - find the main listing here *** Ebisu Yoshikazu. Television star, father of three, professional gambler, writer, cartoonist, pioneer. Since his debut in the legendary alt-manga magazine Garo in 1973, ugly-but-amazing ‘heta-uma’ superstar Ebisu has been spinning out surreal nightmares that combine the edgiest styles of Tokyo’s artistic counterculture with the absurd and infuriating realities of modern life. Originally published in 1982, I Wish I Was Stupid surpasses in shamelessness the artist’s cult classic Pits of Hell. With 13 stories about love, family, work and raging frustration culled from avant-garde porn mags and Garo, Ebisu probes dangerously deep into the inner mucosal of the h