Yoshiharu Tsuge
Reviews
Oba Electroplating Factory
Drawn and Quarterly
Red Flowers (The Complete Mature Works of Yoshiharu Tsuge Volume 2)
Drawn & Quarterly
The Swamp (The Complete Mature Works of Yoshiharu Tsuge Volume 1)
Drawn & Quarterly
The Man Without Talent
New York Review Comics
Articles
RIP Yoshiharu Tsuge
The news broke early this morning that Yoshiharu Tsuge, the enormously influential mangaka, died of aspiration pneumonia on March 3. He was 88. It’s hard to overstate the influence Tsuge had on the manga artists that followed him, not to mention the western cartoonists that became aware of his work through the small dribs and… Read more »
The best comics of 2024, as chosen by TCJ contributors
What were the best comics of this past year? No idea, but here’s some stuff our contributors really liked.
Yoshiharu Tsuge’s Vagabond Rapists, 1968-1972
From 1968-72, the comics of Yoshiharu Tsuge were awash in surreal, dreamlike texture – and filled with images of sexual violence. Helen Chazan reads deeply to reconcile these elements of Tsuge’s work into a new statement of his oeuvre-spanning theme: the desire to vanish.
Scenes from a Marriage: Fujiwara Maki and Tsuge Yoshiharu
An examination of two books documenting roughly the same period in the lives of married artists: Fujiwara Maki’s My Picture Diary and Tsuge Yoshiharu’s The Man Without Talent.
Taniguchi Jirō and His Gekiga Years
Japanese publishers have launched a massive series of reprints spanning the career of the late Taniguchi Jirō, with many supplemental essays. Today we present a 2022 item from Natsume Fusanosuke, laying out a theory of gekiga’s evolution via Taniguchi’s collaboration with the writer Sekikawa Natsuo.
Charting the Beginnings
An ongoing look at the history of alternative manga. First, an overview—and a statement of purpose.
