Sassy Cats
$35.10
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2027
Summary
With piercing eyes and flicks of the tail, house cats observe domesticity poetically, and with sass.
“My first time, it wasn’t just kittens that I birthed, but also me as a mother. So, in raising them, I’m also raising myself…and both are serious business, let me tell you.”
These are the simple musings of a house cat, sprawled on a veranda in the sun, while birds flit and flutter by. These are also the personal reflections of cartoonist Yamada Murasaki.
While Yamada’s …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770468979 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770468978 |
| Author: | Yamada Murasaki |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 155mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
This groundbreaking alternative manga moves with a spare poetry through daily routines and moments of solitude. James Smart, The Guardian. Concise, elegant, and deceptively simple. –Under the Radar. A revelation. –Rachel Cooke, The Observer.
Yamada Murasaki
Yamada Murasaki (1948-2009) debuted as a cartoonist in 1969. Informed by her upbringing—she was raised mainly by her grandmother—and a background in design and poetry, Yamada’s early work was unique in form and content, offering realistic portraits of young women negotiating complicated family situations and the passage to adulthood.
In the late ‘70s, after having a family of her own, her work shifted to young mothers negotiating children, husbands, and the balance between social responsibilities as a housewife and self-respect as a woman. Yamada published manga in practically every issue of Garo from 1978 to 1986, and is considered the first cartoonist to use the artistic freedoms of alternative manga to explore motherhood and domesticity with an unromantic eye.
She is the cartoonist of Talk to My Back and Second Hand Love.
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