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Suehiro Maruo's An Gura Manga Returns in October
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The October issue of Suehiro Maruo's An Gura (an abbreviation for "underground") manga in the magazine's November issue, which will ship on October 12.
The manga ended this March.
The manga is set in the 60s, at the height of both Japan's post-war economic boom, and the protests against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. In the midst of revolutionary underground Tokyo subcultures, such as avant-garde theater and the folk movement, a part-time high schooler boy named Migeru Mizuki attempts to become a manga creator.
won the "New Artist Prize" of the 13th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes in 2009, although he has been drawing manga professionally since 1980.
nominated for the 2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
Maruo Tomino the Damned) manga in November 2018.
Source: Monthly Comic Beam October issue and website
