yoshiharu tsuge

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 2021-11-11 06:18:44

Red Flowers continues the collection of Yoshiharu Tsuge manga short stories by Drawn+Quarterly. The previous collection, The Swamp, showed Tsuge’s

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

5 min read 2021-03-22 10:23:52

By Gianni Simone. For a very long time, and with just a few exceptions, foreign comic fans could only read Yoshiharu Tsuge’s stories in Japanese.

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

5 min read 2020-06-04 17:48:32

There’s something pleasantly perverse about an internationally acclaimed autobiographical novel centered on a supposedly “talentless” main

4 min read 2020-05-17 22:29:10

Drawn and Quarterly’s winter 2021 catalog, which they shared last week, includes new work by Aminder Dhaliwal, Darryl Cunningham and Michael

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

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