Uzimaki

Uzimaki is my favorite Ito book. It’s the only comic I’ve read that has had me unsettled or spooked at shadows. Part of it is how well he can draw human facial expressions *shivers*. The themes of Ito’s horror are:  compulsive behaviors, mutation, hidden sickness, the uncanny valley, and isolation. In “Uzimaki” there’s an interesting relationship between people and their environment feeding off each other and becoming more warped and horrible.  There’s also a fun element of characters keeping up appearances in spite of being noticeably mutated ala the excellent and bewildering film “The Color Out of Space.”

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