Oba Electroplating Factory is the latest collection of works from Yoshiharu Tsuge, the famous and influential mangaka who wrote Nejishiki. All of the stories here were originally published in the 70s. “Boarding House Days” has two men talking after not seeing each other for a …Read more »
Yoshiharu Tsuge’s avant garde short manga story “Nejishiki” has been very influential in Japan, and it’s great that it’s finally been translated into English in book form. The book Nejishiki, published by Drawn & Quarterly, is an anthology of some of Tsuge’s short works. It …Read more »
My Picture Diary is a work by Fujiwara Maki, the wife of the much more famous mangaka Yoshiharu Tsuge. Each page has a short description on one side of what her day was like, and illustrations showcasing the day on the other side. The descriptions …Read more »
Yoshiharu Tsuge has been very influential in the world of manga, but very little of his work has been translated into English. We have Drawn & Quarterly to thank for licensing The Swamp, and its new followup, Red Flowers. Red Flowers is a short story …Read more »
Danica Davidson
