About the Author

Seiichi Hayashi was born in Manchuria in 1945. He published his first comics work in Japan s influential underground comics magazine, Garo. A prolific artist, Hayashi is also a film and commercial director, a children s book author, an animator, and an illustrator. He lives and works just outside of Tokyo.

Reviews

"[Red Colored Elegy] is a condensed visual poetry that still feels avant-garde nearly forty years later." --The Believer "Traced photographs, blank word balloons and nearly cubist sex scenes . . . beautifully lament Ichiro and Sachiko's failed relationship . . . The story is heartbreakingly universal." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)