Shinichi Abe

Abe Shinichi is early 70s Garo. Beginning with his first publication in Garo in 1970 his work typically stories of scraggly beared young men struggling with love and art did much to popularize the image of the manga author as a romantic artist. Garo as sole institutional ally of that inspired but melancholic type and the bohemian neighborhood of Asagaya in western Tokyo as his homesweethome. His inky panels composted of rought and broad brush strokes are the epitome of an expressionistic language that had become a norm of alternative manga in the early 1970s. Numerous manga publications hence Abe is now serializing a novel in AX about daily life as an old boho in Tokyo. His moust famous work The Miyoko Asagaya Feeling 1971 was made into a movie in 2009.