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- ISBN 9781770468597
- Dimensions: 155 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Yoshiharu Tsuge was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1937. Influenced by the realistic and gritty manga of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, he began making his own comics and was briefly recruited to assist Shigeru Mizuki in the 1960s. In 1968, while working for Garo magazine, Tsuge published the groundbreaking story Neji-shiki (commonly called Screw Style by Western readers), which established him as an influential manga-ka and a cultural touchstone in the changing Japanese art world. He is considered the originator and greatest practitioner of the I-novel method of comics-making. In 2005, Tsuge was nominated for the Best Album Award at Angouleme International and in 2017 won the Japan Cartoonists Association Grand Award for Yume to tabi no sekai.
