Namio Harukawa Virago collecting the sixteen earliest stories

collecting the sixteen earliest stories from his acclaimed Optic Nerve comic series — concise

dreams and fears into the characters

and we want to know about all of the them

Instead of a traditional written diary

New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novels Skim and This One Summer–moody and atmospheric bestsellers

Namio Harukawa Virago collecting the sixteen earliest storiesBy Namio Harukawa. Published by Baron Books. Hardcover, 76 pages, Colour and B&W, 2021. Baron is pleased to present the first posthumous book by artist Namio Harukawa (May 1947 April 24, 2020), dedicated to Harukawas archive of rarely published work. Creating a visionary language through the medium of pencil drawings, Harukawa worked for 60 years under a pseudonym, Namio Harukawa: formed from an anagram of Naomi, a reference to Junichir Tanizakis