Junko Mizuno will be signing her new book, Little Fluffy Gigolo PELU
Vol. 1, on Saturday, August 22 at 2pm at NEW PEOPLE The Store in San
Francisco’s Japan Town.
PELU has been getting great reviews. This is your chance to meet Junko and pick up a signed copy of her newest release!
NEW PEOPLE
1746 Post St.
San Francisco, CA 94115
Saturday, August 22, 2pm
Praise for Little Fluffy Gigolo PELU:
…Fluffy Gigolo Pelu
suggests that her work is only veering into more vividly mischievous
territory. It offers a look at an exercise that is comparable to taking
the broken crumbs from the bottom of a bag of candy and trying to melt
them into a lollipop – bright and supposedly sweet, but deformed and
foul smelling where it’s burned. Pelu’s stories of alienation,
unconventional pregnancy and huffing are overtly cracked, but the view
that it presents of less incendiary subjects like office work
dreariness and career dissatisfaction similarly fit into its scheme of
candy colored unhappiness.
…noting the diversity of Earth’s population, Pelu leaps into a magic
mirror hoping to find someone like himself. His mad anti-trip-to-Oz
whirlwind is captured in a montage of dreary meetings, lottery wins,
and over eating – framed by a psychedelic expectoration of bubbles.
Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu features enough dire absurdity that it’ll
force you to laugh.
– Scott
Green, Ain’t It Cool News
Whether her stories
titillate you or not, it’s hard to deny their unique place in the world
of manga. Sans narrative, they’re vintage candy wrappers that you hold
on to because you know you’re going to want to just look at them again
sometime down the road. In that respect, maybe Little Fluffy Gigolo
Pelu is the lovelorn-tragedy-laced Laffy Taffy of the bunch.
…is there enough love on our cruel planet to include a vomit-green,
bow-tie-wearing cotton ball like Pelu? Maybe the answer lies in volume
two, but I’m digging the journey so far.
– Joseph
Luster, Otaku USA
…certainly does not
disappoint if you love Mizuno’s mix of cute / grotesque humor.
– Deb
Aoki, About.com Guide to Manga
Beautiful artwork and
character designs that find the sexiness in Japanese “kawaii” pop
culture. Unapologetic in pushing the envelope in decency and standards.
– The
Anime Almanac
The book is filled with
bizarre, disturbing, but utterly engaging adventures, like the chapter
where Pelu’s friend the Space Hippo arrives on Earth, eats too many
unfamiliar foods, and ends up vomitting an acid-like substance all over
the town’s local poodle ranch.
– John
Jakala, Robot 6
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