Yoshiharu Tsuge A Nobody Artist HC (2026 Drawn and Quarterly) comic books

1st printing. BY Yoshiharu Tsuge. Translated by Ryan Holmberg. A revealing glimpse into the life and times of alt-mangas most intriguing comics auteur Tsuge Yoshiharu 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 cartoonists 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 cartoonists life will lead you. Fleeting moments of domestic happiness are upset by bouts of self-doubt. As always, Tsuges art is succinct and glorious—a beautiful document of a changing Japan. This penultimate volume in Drawn and Quarterlys complete collection of the manga-kas 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. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8-in., 304 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $30.00.