• December 31, 2024

Junji Ito Tells You How He Creates His Terrifying Manga In New Book You Can Preorder

Horror manga writer and artist Junji Ito’s work has seen a huge spike in popularity in recent years in the US, thanks both to the power of his frightening images unsettling stories, and to the internet for spreading it to new fans. Most recently, his best and most popular series of stories, Uzumaki, was adapted into an anime series on Adult Swim. But Ito’s career actually spans decades, reaching all the way back into the 1980s. In a new memoir releasing this month called Uncanny: The Origins of Fear, Ito takes readers through his work–and you can preorder it now.