The Ero guro nansensu tradition of grotesque art dates backs to the 1930s, and one of its remarkable manga practitioners, as noted in Vice and Secret Comics Japan: Underground Comics Now, is master of "fashionable paranoia" Shintaro Kago. He's been doing portraits recently. You can order them internationally online, and he recently started offering them at an exhibit and for sale at Shinjuku Kinokuniya.

In honor of Cat Day, he collected some of his neko-themed works.

Speaking of Shintaro Kago, he will be featured at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2016, May 14-15, where he will debut a new work from Italian publisher Hollow Press.

And we're over the moon that @shintarokago is coming with a new book and an art show at @narwhalprojects! pic.twitter.com/4SKKALc8BN — Toronto Comics (@TorontoComics) February 16, 2016





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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.