EC Book Club: No Longer Human by Junji Ito!

The Emerald City Book Club USUALLY meets on the first Sunday of each month from 4:30 to 5:30pm in our Events Room to discuss the featured book (moved back a week this month). We sometimes start with a brief "Comics 101" segment, providing historical, artistic, or social context before diving into discussion.

The next featured book will be announced at the end of each meeting and is 20% off for the rest of the month! (discount applied at checkout, cannot be combined with other offers).

This month's featured book is...

NO LONGER HUMAN BY JUNJI ITO
VIZ
(W) Junji Ito, Osamu Dazai (A/CA) Junji Ito
Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death. Osamu Dazai's immortal-and supposedly autobiographical-work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo's mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche.

You may also like the following events from Emerald City Comics:

• This Saturday, 17th May, 12:00 pm, Lorcana: Archazia's Island Set Championship! in Pinellas Park
• This Saturday, 17th May, 05:00 pm, MTG: Commander Night! in Pinellas Park
• Next Saturday, 24th May, 01:00 pm, Star Wars Unlimited Open Play! in Pinellas Park

Also check out other Arts events in Pinellas Park, Meetups in Pinellas Park, Literary Art events in Pinellas Park.