HE ROLLED ME UP LIKE A GRILLED SQUID HC (MR)

A manga icon delivers what may be his most confounding, transgressive, and astonishing work between horror and surrealism. In the mid-1970s, Tsuge Yoshiharu was a man changed by circumstance — something his work from 1975 to 1981 reveals unflinchingly.

The confusion and mental illness that had bubbled beneath the surface of his surreal stories boils over here, culminating in a series of nightmarish delusions. He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid shows an author at the midpoint of his career dissecting his fears and suspicions and threading together the connections between a seemingly monotonous present and a complex past. Translation by Ryan Holmberg.