Suehiro Maruo MARUOGRAPH DX I: 40th Anniversary Edition (signed by the Artist)

This is an expanded, new edition of the out of print MARUOGRAPH DXI issued in 2018. Published alongside Maruo Suehiro’s 40th Anniversary art exhibit, “NEXT ONE” in Kyoto,2021. 

Published by Treville, Japan 2021

Signed by the artist inside the book cover with black marker!!!

Soft cover with dust jacket

18 x 25 cm

230 full color color pages

Born in 1956 in Nagasaki, Suehiro Maruo moved to Tokyo at the age of fifteen. When he turned seventeen, he submitted his first manga piece to the magazine “Weekly Shonen Jump”. Although he was rejected, he published his first stand-alone manga anthology “Barairo no Kaibutsu” two years later. In fact, his book “Shoko Tsubaki” was adapted into an animated film.

Suehiro Maruo’s artwork is primarily referred to as Ero guro, or erotico- grotesque. Largely influenced by Japanese tradition but also by the Surrealist movement and the cinema of Juan Luis Buñuel or Fritz Lang, his work is distinguished by a very aesthetic style where we encounter the frozen seduction of the new German Objectivity (from Christian Schad to Otto Dix). His illustrations often also depict human oddities, deformities, birth defects, and "circus freaks”.