Tomie 2: The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection The Basin of the Waterfall ( 滝壺, Takitsubo) Tomie 1: The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Volumes Original release The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection No. Ī new arc titled Tomie: Takeover was released exclusively with the DVD release of the Junji Ito Collection on March 30, 2018, April 27, 2018, and May 25, 2018. Īsahi Sonorama re-released the manga again in two volumes as part of the Junji Ito Masterpiece Collection ( 伊藤潤二傑作集, Itō Junji Kessaku-shū) on January 20, 2011. Dark Horse Comics released this version in its original right-to left format. This version was also released in two volumes with the addition of the chapters originally released in Tomie Again. Tomie was re-released again as part of The Junji Ito Museum of Horror ( 伊藤潤二恐怖博物館) series.

Ī second series titled Atarashī Tomie ( 新しい富江, New Tomie) was serialized in Nemuki and was collected into a single bound volume titled Tomie Again: Tomie Part 3 ( 富江Again―富江 Part3) and released in March 2001. ComicsOne released both volumes on April 1, 2001, with flipped artwork (read left-to-right). The manga series was released in an omnibus volume in February 2000 titled, Tomie Zen ( 富江 (全)). Two volumes were collected into the overarching series The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection ( 伊藤潤二恐怖マンガCollection) as volume 1 and 2 of the series. The Forever stamp, featuring a detail from the cover of “Strega Nona,” will be available in panes of 20 at Post Offices and on appeared as a serial in the manga magazine Monthly Halloween from 1997 to 2000. He died on March 30, 2020, in Lebanon, NH. In 2011, dePaola received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now the Children’s Literature Legacy Award) for his “substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.” Set in southern Italy, the stories focus on Strega Nona -Grandma Witch - who uses magic to help with matters of the heart and to cure her neighbors’ ills. Published in 1975, the first book in the series received a Caldecott Honor. He is probably best known for the “Strega Nona” picture book series. The Postal Service will release a stamp in honor of Tomie dePaola, an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator, on May 5.ĭePaola (1934-2020) produced a body of work that encompasses folktales and legends, informational books, religious and holiday stories, and autobiographical tales.

The Tomie dePaola stamp features a detail from the cover of his “Strega Nona” children’s book.

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