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by Yoshiharu Tsuge; Ryan Holmberg (Translator)


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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.

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  • Title The Man Without Talent
  • Author Yoshiharu Tsuge; Ryan Holmberg (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review Comics
  • Date 2020-01-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781681374437 / 1681374439
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.7 in (20.83 x 14.73 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Graphic novels, Nihilism (Philosophy)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019943048
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.595

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2020, Page 35
  • Library Journal, 12/01/2019, Page 76
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/25/2019, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 01/31/2020, Page 0

About the author

Yoshiharu Tsuge is a cartoonist and essayist known best for his surrealistic, avant-garde work. Tsuge began drawing comics in 1955, working primarily in the rental comics industry that was popular in impoverished post-war Japan. In the 1960s, Tsuge was discovered by the publishers of the avante garde comics magazine Garo and he gained increasing recognition for his surrealistic and introspective work. He withdrew from Garo in the 1970s and his work became more autobiographical. Tsuge has not published cartoons since the late 1980s, elevating him to cult status in Japan. He lives in Tokyo. Ryan Holmberg is an arts and comics historian. He has taught at the University of Chicago, CUNY, the University of Southern California, and Duke University, is a frequent contributor to Art in America, Artforum, Yishu, and The Comics Journal, and has edited and translated books by Seiichi Hayashi, Osamu Tezuka, Sasaki Maki, and others.
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