| Author/Contributor(s): | Tsuge, Yoshiharu; Holmberg, Ryan; Asakawa, Mitsuhiro |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Date: | 11/10/2026 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Tsuge Yoshiharu remains an elusive and highly influential character as he moves into the final phase of his career.
A Nobody Artist features a number of loosely (and disputably) semiautobiographical vignettes often concerning a young cartoonist trying to make a go of it in the shifting manga market. True to form, Tsuge delivers much more than a straight accounting of a cartoonist’s life. Lust routinely distracts our young artists while older artists again and again provide a model for what not to do, or more likely, where a cartoonist’s life will lead you. Fleeting moments of domestic happiness are upset by bouts of self-doubt. As always, Tsuge’s art is succinct and glorious—a beautiful document of a changing Japan.
This penultimate volume in Drawn and Quarterly’s complete collection of the manga-ka’s oeuvre collects richly-detailed and deeply human comics stories originally published between 1981 and 1985. Translated by prolific manga scholar and art historian Ryan Holmberg.