Ryan Holmberg
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1981, Fujiwara Maki began a picture diary about daily life with her son and husband, the legendary manga author Tsuge Yoshiharu. Publishing was not her original intention. "I wanted to record our family's daily life while our son, Shosuke, was small. But as 8mm cameras were too expensive and we were poor, I decided on the picture diary format instead. I figured Shosuke would enjoy reading it when he got older." Drawn in a simple, personable style,...
2) Slum wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants. Though virtually unknown in the United States, Tadao Tsuge is one of the original masters of alternative manga, and one of the world's great artists of the down-and-out. Never before available in English, this new selection of his stories from the late sixties and the seventies depicts the lives of punks, vagrants,...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs--used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector--hoping to find success among the hucksters,...