Celebrating the recent publication of Baron Yoshimoto’s The Troublemakers from Retrofit / Big Planet Comics, professor and historian Ryan Holmbergl offers a fresh perspective on the manga genre of gekiga. Though usually known for its gritty stories about underclass life and male frustration, gekiga was also plugged into the rise of young men’s fashion and the popularity of Anglo-American playboy types in the 1960s. Baron Yoshimoto, Saito Takao, and Tatsumi Yoshihiro are among the artists whose work is discussed.