Rakuda Laughs! Gift Ideas in this poignant graphic novel

in this poignant graphic novel about the remarkable vocalist who rocketed The Mamas & the Papas to stardom

Rendering is the next step after drawing to communicate ideas more clearly

Nam-bok is scary because he came back different

Signed by the artist with a large drawing of a revolver in hand

Rakuda Laughs! Gift Ideas in this poignant graphic novelThese comic stories by Terada are raw and uncensored, full of extreme violence and sex, and not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. With drawings seemingly direct from Terada's sketchbooks, like a Moebius or Crumb stream of consciousness narrative. Rakuda Laughs! treads the same ground as Frank Miller's Sin City, but reminds me of Liberatore's Ranxerox (aka Ranx) more than anything else. It's telling that this work has an afterword by