Z CHAN

Iguchi Shingo's most well-known work, a seemingly-nonsensical comedy. The hero of Z-Chan is a little boy of the same name who wears a dunce cap and a black mask. His sidekick is Richard Sex, a blue mouse who lives in another dimension on the other side of a wall but who appears regularly through a mouse hole. They live in a little house on top of a hill, in Z-Zone and the garden of nothingness, in Lotus Heaven, beyond hope and despair. They both like to take Z powder, which makes them first forget everything, and then remember everything. One of the blue mouse’s jobs is to water tulips. Often the two engage in absurd, riddle-like dialogue. Z-chan Lotus is a revised edition compiling 14 extra stories.