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Slum Wolf

by Tadao Tsuge, Ryan Holmberg ...

Translated 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 ... Read more

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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
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Sassy Cats

by Yamada Murasaki ...

Translated by Ryan Holmberg ...

With those piercing eyes and flicks of the tail, house cats observe domesticity poetically, and with sass“Have you ever given birth before?”“Me..? No, not yet.”“When it happened to me for the first time, it wasn't just kittens that I birthed, but also me as a mother. So now, as I'm raising them, I am also raising myself as a mother… And it ain’t no joke! So, no! I don't really have the luxury to ... Read more

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With those piercing eyes and flicks of the tail, house cats observe domesticity poetically, and with sass“Have you ever given birth before?”“Me..? No, not yet.”“When it happened to me for the first time, it wasn't just kittens that I birthed, but also me as a mother. So now, as I'm raising them, I am also raising myself as a mother… And it ain’t no joke! So, no! I don't really have the luxury to
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The Swamp

by Yoshiharu Tsuge, Mitsuhiro Asakawa ...

Translated by Ryan Holmberg ...

Series Book 1 - Complete Yoshiharu Tsuge
The essential early work by the modern master of Japanese literary comicsYoshiharu 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 ... Read more

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The essential early work by the modern master of Japanese literary comicsYoshiharu 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
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A Nobody Artist

by Yoshiharu Tsuge, Mitsuhiro Asakawa ...

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Series Book 6 - Complete Yoshiharu Tsuge
A revealing glimpse into the life and times of alt-manga’s most intriguing comics auteurTsuge 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 ... Read more

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A revealing glimpse into the life and times of alt-manga’s most intriguing comics auteurTsuge 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
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Second Hand Love

by Yamada Murasaki ...

Translated by Ryan Holmberg ...

In the end, we're all the same…we just want to be smothered like babies against anotherhuman's beating heartThrough a cracked door, heartsick Emi hears a playful growl. Cautiously, she lets her lover in—a wolf of a man wielding a bouquet of roses. His shoulders must have been four inches wider than mine. As I stood behind him, I fantasized about the broadness of his chest and the thickness of his ... Read more

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In the end, we're all the same…we just want to be smothered like babies against anotherhuman's beating heartThrough a cracked door, heartsick Emi hears a playful growl. Cautiously, she lets her lover in—a wolf of a man wielding a bouquet of roses. His shoulders must have been four inches wider than mine. As I stood behind him, I fantasized about the broadness of his chest and the thickness of his
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Talk to My Back

by Yamada Murasaki ...

Translated by Ryan Holmberg ...

A celebrated masterwork shimmering with vulnerability from one of alt-manga's most important female artists.“Now that we’ve woken from the dream, what are we going to do?” Chiharu thinks to herself, rubbing her husband’s head affectionately.Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981–84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams ... Read more

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A celebrated masterwork shimmering with vulnerability from one of alt-manga's most important female artists.“Now that we’ve woken from the dream, what are we going to do?” Chiharu thinks to herself, rubbing her husband’s head affectionately.Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981–84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams
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He Rolled Me Up like a Grilled Squid

by Yoshiharu Tsuge, Mitsuhiro Asakawa ...

Translated by Ryan Holmberg ...

Series Book 5 - Complete Yoshiharu Tsuge
A manga icon’s most perplexing, transgressive, and astounding work of horrorand surrealismBy the mid-1970s, Tsuge Yoshiharu was a man changed by circumstance—something hiswork from 1975 to 1981 boldly reveals. After settling into married life with fellow artistFujiwara Maki (author of Eisner-winning My Picture Diary), Tsuge would return to thenarrative formulas that he knew best: tall tales ... Read more

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A manga icon’s most perplexing, transgressive, and astounding work of horrorand surrealismBy the mid-1970s, Tsuge Yoshiharu was a man changed by circumstance—something hiswork from 1975 to 1981 boldly reveals. After settling into married life with fellow artistFujiwara Maki (author of Eisner-winning My Picture Diary), Tsuge would return to thenarrative formulas that he knew best: tall tales
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Red Flowers

by Yoshiharu Tsuge, Mitsuhiro Asakawa ...

Translated by Ryan Holmberg ...

Series Book 2 - Complete Yoshiharu Tsuge
The influential cartoonist hits his stride as he celebrates the charms and oddities of rural postwar cultureYoshiharu Tsuge leaves early genre trappings behind, taking a light, humorous approach in these stories based on his own travels. Red Flowers ranges from deep character studies to personal reflections to ensemble comedies set in the hotels and bathhouses of rural Japan. There are irascible ... Read more

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The influential cartoonist hits his stride as he celebrates the charms and oddities of rural postwar cultureYoshiharu Tsuge leaves early genre trappings behind, taking a light, humorous approach in these stories based on his own travels. Red Flowers ranges from deep character studies to personal reflections to ensemble comedies set in the hotels and bathhouses of rural Japan. There are irascible
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Oba Electroplating Factory

by Yoshiharu Tsuge ...

Translated by Ryan Holmberg ...

Series Book 4 - Complete Yoshiharu Tsuge
An alt-manga legend strikes out on his own, creating some of his most revealing and personal worksOba 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 ... Read more

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An alt-manga legend strikes out on his own, creating some of his most revealing and personal worksOba 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
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Nejishiki

by Yoshiharu Tsuge ...

Translated by Ryan Holmberg ...

Series Book 3 - Complete Yoshiharu Tsuge
The most critically acclaimed comic of the Japanese countercultureNejishiki unveils the most iconic scenes from Yoshiharu Tsuge’s highly respected body of work alongside his most beloved stories. A cornerstone of Japan’s legendary 1960s counterculture that galvanized avant-garde manga and comics criticism, the title story follows an injured young man as he wanders through a village of strangers in ... Read more

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The most critically acclaimed comic of the Japanese countercultureNejishiki unveils the most iconic scenes from Yoshiharu Tsuge’s highly respected body of work alongside his most beloved stories. A cornerstone of Japan’s legendary 1960s counterculture that galvanized avant-garde manga and comics criticism, the title story follows an injured young man as he wanders through a village of strangers in
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Life With Archie Magazine #3

by Paul Kupperberg, Norm Breyfogle, Andrew Pepoy, Janice Chiang, Joe Rubinstein, Jack Morelli, Glenn Whitmore, Tito Peña ...

Series Book 3 - Life With Archie Magazine
The best-selling Archie wedding series continues with The Married Life, two ongoing series each featuring one of Archies two possible futures, one married to Betty and another married to Veronica.“Archie Loves Betty: Saturday” First, in “Archie Loves Betty: Saturday” Archie and Betty fight to make their dreams come true in Manhattan, but back in Riverdale, Mr. Lodge will stop at nothing to break ... Read more

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The best-selling Archie wedding series continues with The Married Life, two ongoing series each featuring one of Archies two possible futures, one married to Betty and another married to Veronica.“Archie Loves Betty: Saturday” First, in “Archie Loves Betty: Saturday” Archie and Betty fight to make their dreams come true in Manhattan, but back in Riverdale, Mr. Lodge will stop at nothing to break
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by Frank Miller ...

The armies of Persia—a vast horde greater than any the world has ever known—are poised to crush Greece, an island of reason and freedom in a sea of madness and tyranny. Standing between Greece and this tidal wave of destruction are a tiny detachment of but three hundred warriors. Frank Miller's epic retelling of history's supreme moment of battlefield valor is finally collected in its intended ... Read more

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The armies of Persia—a vast horde greater than any the world has ever known—are poised to crush Greece, an island of reason and freedom in a sea of madness and tyranny. Standing between Greece and this tidal wave of destruction are a tiny detachment of but three hundred warriors. Frank Miller's epic retelling of history's supreme moment of battlefield valor is finally collected in its intended
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