Le maître de l'horreur, Junji Ito, revient avec une de ses œuvres les plus angoissantes dans une édition prestige !
Cette nouvelle édition prestige contient des pages bonus ainsi qu'une interview de l'auteur, permettant à l'ouvrage de rejoindre d'autres récits majeurs de Junji Ito comme Spirale, Gyo, Junji Ito - Histoires courtes, La Déchéance d'un homme, Black Paradox... Junji Ito nous conte cette fois-ci un récit (presque) autobiographique !
Yon et Mu sont deux chats en apparence ordinaire... mais dès qu'on a le dos tourné, ni une ni deux, les voilà prêts à commetre les pires atrocités ! Yon, né avec une tête de mort sur le dos, en joue beaucoup et adore prendre en chasse sa proie préférée... qui n'est autre que Junji Ito lui-même !
Junji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga. Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists. His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism. Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her admirers to commit atrocities; Uzumaki (1998-1999), set in a town cursed with spiral patterns; Gyo (2001-2002), featuring a horde of metal-legged undead fishes. Tomie and Uzumaki in particular have been adapted multiple times in live-action and animation.