Within these tales, Ito is able to conjure up gross, unsettling images that linger long after they’re read. But the bulk of Ito’s output are short, punchy narratives that oscillate between the Twilight Zone-esque (like “The Sad Tale of the Principal Post,” about a man who dies literally holding up his new house) and disturbing body horror yarns with hyper-realistic detail (like “Greased,” which involves a teenage boy drinking cooking oil and squeezing a face full of zits onto his sibling). He has published several series, like the Eisner-nominated Uzumaki (about a town plagued by a curse involving spirals) and Gyo (where an aborted WWII Japanese military experiment leads to legged fish swarming the earth). Ito is able to conjure up unsettling images that linger long after they’re read
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