Shintaro Kago

In 2018, manga artist Shintaro Kago made his English debut with Dementia 21 (Fantagraphics), a collection of absurdist manga short stories. Readers found themselves delighted and disgusted by his penchant for body horror, black comedy and the surreal, paired with his emphatic, kinetic art style. Kago returns at the height of his powers with Brain Damage, where he dials up...

In Dementia 21 Vol. 2, Yukie boldly decides to join the resistance — against a squadron of maniacal diapers hell-bent on taking over the world! A shorthanded hospital hires zombies to care for its patients, but … what exactly do they eat? When an old man creates a machine that causes out-of-body experiences, what could possibly go wrong? And why...