The Last of the Mohicans

モヒカン族の最後

Mohicans Zoku no Saigo

Sugiura Shigeru (1908-2000) is regarded as one of the masters of Japanese comics. His 1953 adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans sold over 60,000 copies, quickly making him one of the most popular children's manga artists of the 1950s. His fame declined by the mid-1960s, but he made a comeback later in the decade with many highly surreal, collage-like works, and he chose to rework Mohicans in this fresh style in 1974. Considered a postwar manga masterpiece, The Last of the Mohicans is as visually beautiful as it is enjoyable to read. This PictureBox edition—the first book-length publication of Sugiura in English—is edited and translated by Ryan Holmberg, who also provides an introduction, and serves as the inaugural volume in PictureBox's Ten Cent Manga series, which focuses on mass-produced genre works in Japanese postwar comics.

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