The Man Without Talent by Yoshiharu Tsuge

The Man Without Talent by Yoshiharu Tsuge

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.

Yoshiharu Tsuge was born in 1937 in Tokyo, Japan. He began drawing his own comics after being influenced by Yoshihiro Tatsumi's realistic and harsh rental manga. He was also enlisted to help Shigeru Mizuki during the 1960s, when he was at the height of his fame. Tsuge established himself as an renowned manga-ka and a cultural touchstone in the shifting Japanese art scene in 1968, when he published the ground-breaking narrative Neji-shiki for Garo magazine. He is widely regarded as the creator and master of the I-novel method of comics creation. Tsuge was nominated for the Angouleme Comics Festival's Best Album Prize in 2005, and he received the Japan Cartoonists Association Grand Award in 2017.

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ISBN 13	9781681374437
ISBN 10	1681374439
Title	The Man Without Talent
Author	Yoshiharu Tsuge
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2020-01-28
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.