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Review Quotes: "Fascinating... one of Japan's most celebrated and reclusive artists."--The Guardian "Tsuge's raw and profound work is equal parts pathos and poetry, streaked with irony and ribaldry."-- Kirkus Starred Review "Exemplary... an elucidating glimpse into modern manga's origins.."-- Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewBiographical Note: Yoshiharu Tsuge was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1937. Influenced by the realistic and gritty manga of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, he began making his own comics and was briefly recruited to assist Shigeru Mizuki in the 1960s. In 1968, while working for Garo magazine, Tsuge published the groundbreaking story "Neji-shiki" (commonly called "Screw Style" by Western readers), which established him 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 Angoulême International and in 2017 won the Japan Cartoonists Association Grand Award for Yume to tabi no sekai. Publisher Marketing: The most critically acclaimed comic of the Japanese counterculture Review Citations:
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