this is how Hino makes his living and although his comics kinda lose there potency in translation there still very good books.
how he was born after the hiroshima bombing and his parents had to walk miles across japan with other peaple from there town the sick and old peaple dying on the way ,his mother went crazy when his brother was born some years later and used to beat him bloody,
he lives next to a factory were they burn the headless bodys of p.o.ws
and a bloody river runs buy his house which is filled with all the dead things in japan
i love this book very much it is very sad
on a stormy night a woman gives birth to twin girls one normal the other disfigured the farther and doctors tell
the woman she only had one baby whilst the farther takes the disfigured child to the dump to die
soon it does but a spirit thing finds it and reserects it the baby grows up in the bump eating worms/rats but one day she sees the lights of the city and goes to it there she sees her family her buetifull sister the spirit thing tells her if she kills the girl she can become her.....
want to find out the ending?
but it is available to the u.k (not u.s.a) thruogh japan shock video.
sounds like a good story about an artist again (artists beware if you stumble into Hino land)