Garo in English
For the most part, commercial manga translators have passed over the offbeat works showcased in Garo in favor of more mainstream, action/adventure and romance stories from the major publishers. Similarly, scanlation translators have mostly overlooked experimental fare. However, some Garo comics are available in English.
In the early 1990s, Viz Comics (now VIZ Media) published some of Sanpei Shirato's Kamui under the title Legend of Kamui. More recently, Blast Books has published books of avant-garde manga, including many pieces from the pages of Garo. Even more recently The Comics Journal published Yoshiharu Tsuge's work Screw Style in issue #250.
In 2008 Drawn and Quarterly published Good-Bye, the third volume of their ongoing edition of the work of Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Some of the comics collected in Good-Bye originally appeared in Garo. In 2010 an English version of the anthology, 'AX', was published by Top Shelf under the title 'AX:alternative manga' (edited by Sean Michael Wilson). It featured several of the creators who had previously appeared in 'Garo' in it's later years and received a high level of praise from critics.
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