Breakdown Press is honoured to be bringing King Terry's Penguin Rice into English for the first time. The holy grail of heta-uma, this wild and outrageous manga is sure to shock and delight even the most jaded of readers - expect beach hunks and babes, enormous octopi and UFOs. First published in 1980 by Seirindo and reissued in paperback in 1993 by Chikuma Shobo, Penguin Rice is a crazed anthology of twenty surreal and grotesque stories that will wrench dark laughter from every reader. The monsterous imagination of Shigesato Itoi combines with the singular art of Teruhiko Yumura, one of the greatest masters of Japanese underground manga. Penguin Rice is the manifesto of the heta-uma movement, a subculture that definitively established itself in the 1980s during the New Wave thanks to the seminal nature of this title. A new translation by Ryan Holmberg.
