Kzradock the Onion Man - Louis Levy Anna Morgunova “Shigeru Mizuki resurrected Japan’s folk

“Shigeru Mizuki resurrected Japan’s folk creatures as pop culture for the masses

but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences

sparkling prose

or otherwise employed

together providing a microcosm of natural history illustration from the eighteenth century until today

Kzradock the Onion Man - Louis Levy Anna Morgunova “Shigeru Mizuki resurrected Japan’s folkKzradock the Onion Man and the Spring Fresh Methuselah by Louis Levy, translated by W. C. Bamberger ISBN 9781939663283 small 152 page paperback with flaps from Wakefield Press *** Originally published in Danish in 1910, Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring Fresh Methuselah is a fevered pulp novel that reads like nothing else of its time: an anomaly within the tradition of the Danish novel, and one that makes for a startlingly modern read to this day.