Finally! A new edition of the long-out of print Ding Dong Circus. 

This collection re-presents, for the first time in English, the best of Sasaki Maki’s work, mainly from alt-manga super magazine Garo.

Drawn between 1967 and 1974, the fifteen stories here follow Sasaki’s groundbreaking exploration of collage methods in comics storytelling, weaving through references to R&B, rock ‘n’ roll, the Vietnam War, Andy Warhol, the Summer of Love, the Beatles, British humour, and the wacky world of Japanese consumerism.

Ding Dong Circus demonstrates what manga fans already knew: that in Sasaki Maki, Japan can claim not only a pioneer in experimental comics, but one of the world’s masters of Pop Art and a trenchant avant-garde critic of the Sixties.

Artist: Sasaki Maki
Translator: Ryan Holmberg
Publisher: Breakdown Press
Page Count: 256pp
Size: 6 x 8
Notes: softcover, partial color
Date of Publication: July 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1911081265