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SWAMP

SWAMP
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SWAMP Hardback -

by Yoshiharu Tsuge; Ryan Holmberg (Translator); Mitsuhiro Asakawa (Editor)

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Drawn & Quarterly Publications , Illustrated edition w York, NY 10010 USA NO-PA16APR2015-KAP. Hardback. New.
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  • Title SWAMP
  • Author Yoshiharu Tsuge; Ryan Holmberg (Translator); Mitsuhiro Asakawa (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Drawn & Quarterly Publications
  • Publication date Illustrated edition w York, N
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6386302961
  • ISBN 9781770463844 / 1770463844
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 6.5 x 1 in (21.84 x 16.51 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Graphic Novels
  • Library of Congress subjects Graphic novels, Comic books, strips, etc - Japan
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.595
  • Quantity available 10

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From the publisher

The essential early work by the modern master of Japanese literary comics

Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the tradition of mystery and adventure stories, Tsuge's fiction focused on the lives of the citizens of Japan. These mesmerizing comics, like those of his contemporary Yoshihiro Tatsumi, reveal a gritty, at times desperate postwar Japan, while displaying Tsuge's unique sense of humor and point of view.

"Chirpy" is a simple domestic drama about expectations, fidelity, and escape. A couple purchase a beautiful white bird with a red beak. It is said that the bird will grow attached to its owners and never fly away. While the girlfriend is working as a hostess, flirting with men for money, the boyfriend decides to draw a portrait of the new family member, and disaster strikes.

In "The Swamp," a simple rural encounter is charged with sexual tension that is alluring but also fraught with danger. When a young woman happens upon a wing-shot goose, she tries to calm it then suddenly snaps its neck. Later, she befriends a young hunter and offers him shelter, but her motivations remain unclear, especially when the hunter notices a snake in the room where they'll both be sleeping.

The Swamp is a landmark in English manga-publishing history and the first in a series of Tsuge books Drawn & Quarterly will be publishing.

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 02/17/2020, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 06/09/2020, Page 0

About the author

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 influential manga-ka and a cultural touchstone in the changing Japanese art world. He is considered the originator and greatest practitioner of the I-novel method of comics-making. In 2005, Tsuge was nominated for the Best Album Award at Angoulme International and in 2017 won the Japan Cartoonists Association Grand Award for Yume to tabi no sekai.

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