ryan holmberg

5 min read 2022-01-11 19:00:46

Red Flowers (The Complete Mature Works of Yoshiharu Tsuge Volume 2)

The Swamp, the first volume in Drawn and Quarterly’s ongoing attempt to publish “the complete mature works” of Yoshiharu Tsuge in English, saw

1 min read 2021-11-09 23:12:55

*STARRED REVIEW The works of Yoshiharu Tsuge, credited with the “invention” of literary manga, finally arrived in the U.S. 65 years after he

8 min read 2020-07-29 18:00:47

I have to admit that the reason this book initially intrigued me is most likely a coincidence. Last year, the record label Light In The Attic

1 min read 2020-07-24 22:29:33

An English-language debut, The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud is a label-defying collection of Kuniko Tsurita’s gekiga – literally,

12 min read 2020-07-22 18:00:14

“A small spider lives in my body. Usually it sits quietly, deep inside. But sometimes it crawls around just beneath the skin of my arms and

23 min read 2020-07-21 18:00:59

*This is the second of a two-part essay surveying manga and manga-adjacent media dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, from manga- and anime-based

21 min read 2020-07-14 18:00:15

The first lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 in Japan was on January 16, only the second case reported outside of China. By the end of the month, China

1 min read 2020-06-09 22:47:11

Yoshiharu Tsuge abandoned making manga in 1987, and yet his legacy has only expanded – deservedly so – during the decades since, far beyond his

11 min read 2020-05-01 18:00:06

There is a bracing passage in editor Mitsuhiro Asakawa's long supplementary text in the back of this much-awaited book, where he identifies Manga

4 min read 2020-03-23 18:00:13

For most of his life, Yoshiharu Tsuge objected to having his work translated, because there was so much Japan-specific cultural context it would be

4 min read 2020-01-07 18:00:32

Bloody Stumps Samurai arrived in North America last year as something like a once-buried object, a work that had to be excavated before it could be

2 min read 2020-01-03 23:34:21

Readers have an easy choice here: to read this resonating six-chapter collection as an entertaining, albeit sobering, manga about the middle-aged