Moebius even referred to Koike as a "magnificent ronin" in a blurb from the publisher Last Gasp.
A more realistic comparison might be that Katsuhiro Otomo got really into LSD Last Gasp (the San Francisco publishing house that also published The Strange Tale Of Panorama Island, a manga I looked at here) is known for alt-manga[...]
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San Francisco publisher Last Gasp published …Panorama Island as a stately comics-sized hardcover, complete with purple endpapers.
If you're willing to gamble with your horror, and you're of age, give …Panorama Island a try You won't forget the trip.
Sometimes you have to gamble The Strange Tale Of Panorama Island, an adults-only manga by Suehiro Maruo,[...]
Slow Death was an underground comix anthology published by Last Gasp in 1970, their first publication Conceived as an ecologically themed comics magazine, in conjunction with the first Earth Day, the title's underlying theme was always about what the human race was doing to damage the native planet Frequent contributors to Slow Death included Greg[...]