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Junji Ito is still the only comics artist that scares me
23.10.2023 - 20:13 / polygon.com
It is exceptionally hard to scare someone via comics. Horror in other media relies heavily on implication and anticipation; the artist always knows exactly when and in what order you will experience their story. Comics yield some of that control — it isn’t possible to force people to only see one panel at a time. This doesn’t make comics an inferior medium for horror, it just makes it unlike most others — and it can be hard to find a creator that is effective at scaring you.
Not Junji Ito, though. He is my comics artist boogeyman, capable of regularly lulling me into a false sense of security before — bam! — he hits me with a terrible image that I cannot scrub from my brain, a page that will just sit there, on my bookshelf, haunting me and beguiling me for being so impressively twisted.
But maybe you’re not sure if Ito is for you, and you want one of his more chill works to see what the fuss is about. Mimi’s Tales of Terror, out this week, is a good way to dip your toe into the shallow end of the Ito pool. Getting into Ito can be great fun, especially if you have a friend who is also an Ito-head. What the fuck! you can text each other back and forth about 18 times when you read Ito’s story about jacked-up balloon people, or Uzumaki, his sprawling opus about a town obsessed with, and cursed by, spirals. (Soon to be an Adult Swim miniseries.)
A collection of long out-of-print short stories based on a Japanese anthology of urban legends, Mimi’s Tales of Terror follows Mimi, a university student, as she encounters strange, unexplained phenomena. This means that this set of stories is a bit less out there and not as grotesque, just a brief tour through some weird and unsettling events.
There’s a drawback to this: Mimi’s Tales of Terror is not a good showcase for what Ito does best. A good Ito story is excellent at building a palpable dread, as his clean line work and deep inky blacks introduce you to characters that are almost doll-like in appearance, seemingly incapable of the macabre distortions they will endure, before his panels explode with grotesquerie or cosmic horror. Mimi’s Tales of Terror is Diet Ito instead — Goosebumps, not Clive Barker.
What Mimi’s Tales of Terror is great at, however, is surfacing an underappreciated aspect of Ito’s work: He’s so damn goofy. There’s a wry wit and playful curiosity to the legendary mangaka’s horror comics, one that’s easy to overlook given some of the artist’s aggressively dark work, like Black Paradox, about a group of people who meet for the purpose of dying by suicide alongside each other. Ito, by all accounts a very happy, well-adjusted man who struggles to raise his cat, frequently tells stories about the warping power of obsession, ironically an
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