For those who are not familiar with Junko Mizuno, she is a manga artist with certainly a unique artistic approach. She uses bold lines and a great deal of black and white without many lighter shading between (unless the manga is in color as it sometimes is–then the whole spectrum is available). It also has a slightly more Western comic strip look to it, with a cutesy element to it. At least until you throw in the grotesque parts. In sum, her style is cute-grotesque and while reading one of her non-colored volumes, I personally have to fight the urge to pull out a box of crayons and start coloring.
{December 10, 2011}
Pure Trance