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What You See Is What You Get: Visualizing Hypocrisy in Umezu Kazuo’s Manga Cat-Eyed Boy
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies
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Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Subjects
- Japanese Literature -- Analysis
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Abstract
In his manga Cat-Eyed Boy (Nekome Kozō, 1967-9 and 1976), Umezu Kazuo (1936- ) often uses his titular punky half-feline, half-human character less as a protagonist and more as an observer who helps narrate horrific tales. As a discoverer of horror, the character’s greatest superpower is seeing something unknown, something to be feared...
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Jon P. Holt. "What You See Is What You Get: Visualizing Hypocrisy in Umezu Kazuo’s Manga Cat-Eyed Boy" ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies (2019) ISSN: 1549-6732 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jon_holt/17/
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