I Wish You were Ugly Just Like Me is a collection of drawings and paintings by Yusuke Okada, a Japanese artist living in New York City who has positioned himself as both a staple and a fringe artist in the independent music scene.
This debut monograph is a concise introduction to Okada’s whimsy and wit as a visual artist. The dramas and stresses of city life play out in scenes and portraits of mordant, sometimes-grotesque humor: flagrant and hilarious New Yorker covers from an alternate, genital-obsessed universe; a brief comic strip about the severed lower half of a man, which embarks on a binge of id-indulging bad behavior before being shot by a cop; a series involving a peep hole that is more concerned with the parts unseen.
This limited first edition features a hand silk-screened wraparound jacket, as well as an introduction written by Keegan Mills Cooke.
