Slum Wolf by Ryan Holmberg

Slum Wolf by Ryan Holmberg

A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants.

Tadao Tsuge is one of the pioneers of alternative manga, and one of the world's great artists of the down-and-out. Slum Wolf is a new selection of his stories from the late Sixties and Seventies, never before available in English: a vision of Japan as a world of bleary bars and rundown flophouses, vicious street fights and strange late-night visions. In assured, elegantly gritty art, Tsuge depicts a legendary, aging brawler, a slowly unraveling businessman, a group of damaged veterans uniting to form a shantytown, and an array of punks, pimps, and drunks, all struggling for freedom, meaning, or just survival.

With an extensive introduction by translator and comics historian Ryan Holmberg, this collection brings together some of Tsuge's most powerful work--raucous, lyrical, and unforgettable.

Since the late 1950s, Tadao Tsuge (born 1941) has been drawing comic books. He was a key contributor to the underground comics magazine Garo, as well as the journals Yako and Gento, in the 1960s and 1970s. Tsuge is a cartoonist who also enjoys fishing and has authored writings on the subject. For the most of his creative career, he has worked full-time in blue-collar occupations, most notably as a cleaner at one of Tokyo's for-profit blood banks, which appears heavily in a number of his works. Teru Ishii, a cult film director, made a film based on Tsuge's comics in 1995. Tsuge is from Saitama Prefecture, which is close to Tokyo.

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ISBN 13	9781681371740
ISBN 10	168137174X
Title	Slum Wolf
Author	Ryan Holmberg
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2018-08-28
Number of pages	270
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