March to Death. Shigeru Mizuki.
In Portuguese, 368 pages; soft cover, 24 x 17 cm, black and white. Becoming.
From the Japanese master who would make popular around the world the creatures of Japanese fantastic folklore known as yokai, comes a paradoxical autobiography. Mizuki was a veteran of the Pacific War, as a soldier of the Japanese Empire. This experience gave rise to several volumes, created in the author's artistic maturity. This self-concluding volume focuses on an episode that reveals how absurd are blind ideologies under authoritarianism and the madness of "honor" in the midst of a war. Despite everything, there is a humor that runs through these horrible moments, and the way the drawings fluctuate between the caricature-dolled and the photorealistic create a very strong referentiality effect.
