A Nobody Artist

A revealing glimpse into the life and times of alt-manga's most intriguing comics auteur

Tsuge Yoshiharu, one of manga's last living legends, remains an elusive and highly influential character as he moves into the final phase of his career.

A Nobody Artist features a number of loosely (and disputably) semiautobiographical vignettes often concerning a young cartoonist trying to make a go of it in the shifting manga market. True to form, Tsuge delivers much more than a straight accounting of a cartoonist's life. Lust routinely distracts our young artists while older artists again and again provide a model for what not to do, or more likely, where a cartoonist's life will lead you. Fleeting moments of domestic happiness are upset by bouts of self-doubt. As always, Tsuge's art is succinct and glorious-a beautiful document of a changing Japan.

This penultimate volume in Drawn and Quarterly's complete collection of the legendary manga-ka's oeuvre collects richly-detailed and deeply human comics stories originally published between 1981 and 1985. Translated by prolific manga scholar and art historian Ryan Holmberg.

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Yoshiharu Tsuge

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Yoshiharu Tsuge
• Con la collaborazione di: Mitsuhiro Asakawa (Editore), Ryan Holmberg (Traduzione)
• Editore: Drawn & Quarterly
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.12.2026
• EAN: 9781770468597
• ISBN: 978-1-77046-859-7
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 213 mm x 25 mm
• Peso: 454 g
• Categoria: Narrativa > Fumetti, cartoni, humour, satira