Oba Electroplating Factory
$64.03
- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2024
Summary
An alt-manga legend strikes out on his own, creating some of his most revealing and personal works.
Oba Electroplating Factory is a startlingly bleak but nonetheless captivating portrait of mid-century Japan in its most unglamorous iteration. Glimpses of the artist reflecting upon his life, his work, and his contemporaries pepper the narrative landscape: a wife teases her husband about a former fling on a trip to the hot springs, a young cartoonist is aghast at the cavalier c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770466791 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770466797 |
| Author: | Yoshiharu Tsuge |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 752g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 163mm x 220mm |
| Series: | Yoshiharu Tsuge |
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Critics Review
Praise for Yoshiharu Tsuge: ‘Fascinating one of Japan s most celebrated and reclusive artists.’ The Guardian. ‘A revered creator of gegika manga [who works] in a style both spare and lush.’ New York Times Book Review. ‘Exemplary… an elucidating glimpse into modern manga s origins.’ Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Yoshiharu Tsuge
Yoshiharu Tsuge was born in Tokyo in 1937. Influenced by the realistic and gritty rental manga of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, he began making his own comics. He was also briefly recruited to assist Shigeru Mizuki in the 1960s. In 1968, working for Garo magazine, Tsuge published the groundbreaking story ‘Neji-shiki’ (commonly called ‘Screw Style’ by Western readers), which established Tsuge 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.
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