When Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show was first published in English in 1992 -- by the aptly named Blast Books  -- it blew many a mind; nothing like it had been seen before.  Originally published in Japan in 1984, it is one of Maruo's major works as well as being the first of them to make it to North American shores.  Simultaneously horrific, surreal and perverse, entirely drawn with a meticulous attention to detail it is a work of unrivalled strangeness.  Out of print for years, it has just been reprinted by Blast at an amazing inflation-free price!