That's how it is

In Tokyo, the buildings are erect penises reaching towards a sky where they fly cock planes. Men and women have a head shaped like an acorn, and they have orgies late at night after the office day. That's how it is. In the baths mixed audiences, the guys cheat boredom by threading funny beads in funny places… Au pairs leave baby and household chores to to engage in the crudest acts among themselves. That's how it is. Chinkoman, the "dick-man" uses his oversized organ to violently impose his law phallic. That's how it is! That's how it is! This is how it is: the society described in these nine short stories by Jirô Ishikawa is placed under the sign of the king-phallus, of the sexual drive, of the narcissism, of libidinous obsession. It is the society of pleasure-seekers, of neurotic satisfied, the society of the head of knots. With an elegant stroke capable to embrace all registers, from minimal to psychedelic, including codes of gekiga, Jirô Ishikawa, virtuoso mangaka and outcast, describes this world as that he sees it, as he dreams it or, more surely, as he fears it. Almost unknown in his country, Ishikawa is a decadent, delirious, out-of-touch author that no one dared to wait for. He is here, that's how it is now. NOTE__ The work is completed, in the postface, by an interview with the author.