{"product_id":"a-nobody-artist","title":"A Nobody Artist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revealing glimpse into the life and times of alt-manga's most intriguing comics auteur\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTsuge Yoshiharu remains an elusive and highly influential character as he moves into the final phase of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":67683660169584,"sku":"9781770468597","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_7c62bf2c-20e4-417f-a4d8-56ea705702c6.jpg?v=1791608465","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/a-nobody-artist","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}