Tsuge Yoshiharu - The Man Without Talent - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A Japanese manga legend's autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first full - length work by the great Yoshiharu Tsuge available in the English language. Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of comics most celebrated and influential artists but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English - speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent his first book ever to be translated into English is an unforgiving self - portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs - - used camera salesman ferryman and stone collector - - hoping to find success among the hucksters speculators and deadbeats he does business with. Instead he fails again and again unable to provide for his family earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life and an off - kilter portrait of modern Japan. Accompanied by an essay from translator Ryan Holmberg that discusses Tsuge's importance in comics and Japanese literature The Man Without Talent is one of the great works of comics literature.
Title: The Man Without Talent
Author(s): Tsuge Yoshiharu
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681374437
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 1/28/2020
Category: Graphic Novels