{"product_id":"9781770462120","title":"Red Colored Elegy","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eRed Colored Elegy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Seiichi Hayashi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn influential and experimental work, in an all-new paperback edition!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIchiro and Sachiko are young artists, temperamental and discouraged about what life has to offer them. They fall in and out of love, jealous of each other's interests and unchallenged by their careers. \u003ci\u003eRed Colored Elegy \u003c\/i\u003echarts their heartache, passions, and bickering with equal tenderness, creating a revelatory portrait of a stormy love affair.\u003cbr\u003e     A cornerstone of the Japanese underground scene of the 1960s, Seiichi Hayshi wrote \u003ci\u003eRed Colored Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e between 1970 and 1971, in the aftermath of a politically turbulent and culturally vibrant decade that promised but failed to deliver new possibilities. Sparse line work and visual codes borrowed from animation and film beautifully capture the quiet lives of a young couple struggling to make ends meet. Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, but they're no revolutionaries; their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sleeping together and at times with others.\u003cbr\u003e     \u003ci\u003eRed Colored Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e is informed as much by underground Japanese comics of the time as it is by the French New Wave. Its influence in Japan was so large that Morio Agata, a prominent Japanese folk musician and singer\/songwriter, debuted with a love song written and named after it. This new paperback edition features an essay on \u003ci\u003eRed Colored Elegy \u003c\/i\u003eand Hayashi's contributions to contemporary Japanese comics from the art historian Ryan Holmberg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eRed Colored Elegy]\u003c\/i\u003e is a condensed visual poetry that still feels avant-garde nearly forty years later.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Traced photographs, blank word balloons and nearly cubist sex scenes . . . beautifully lament Ichiro and Sachiko's failed relationship . . . The story is heartbreakingly universal.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781770462120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Drawn and Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40607481528526,"sku":"9781770462120","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_f32394e5-f32a-49b4-aac8-327f6ad252b1.jpg?v=1638145897","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781770462120","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}