Oba Electroplating Factory - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Yoshiharu Tsuge, Ryan Holmberg (Translator)Series:Yoshiharu Tsuge #4Publish date:2024-08-13Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Drawn & QuarterlyISBN-13:9781770466791ISBN-10:1770466797UPC:9781770466791Book Category:Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Subcategory:Literary, East Asian StyleBook Topic:MangaSize:8.50 x 6.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC0HR35PHV
Oba Electroplating Factory
An alt-manga legend strikes out on his own, creating some of his most revealing and personal works
Oba Electroplating Factory is a startlingly bleak but nonetheless captivating portrait of mid-century Japan in its most unglamorous iteration. Glimpses of the artist reflecting upon his life, his work, and his contemporaries pepper the narrative landscape: a wife teases her husband about a former...
Series: Yoshiharu Tsuge #4
Language:EnglishPublisher:Drawn & QuarterlyISBN-13:9781770466791ISBN-10:1770466797UPC:9781770466791Book Category:Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Subcategory:Literary, East Asian StyleBook Topic:MangaSize:8.50 x 6.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC0HR35PHV
Yoshiharu Tsuge was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1937. Influenced by the realistic and gritty manga of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, he began making his own comics and was briefly recruited to assist Shigeru Mizuki in the 1960s. In 1968, while working for Garo magazine, Tsuge published the groundbreaking story "Neji-shiki" (commonly called "Screw Style" by Western readers), which established him as an...
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
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