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The man without talent / Yoshiharu Tsuge ; translated and with an essay by Ryan Holmberg.

by Tsuge, Yoshiharu, 1937-

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The New York Review of Books, 2019.

Cartoonists -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc.

New York Review comics.

9781681374437 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Yoshiharu Tsuge : the man without talent

216 p. : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.

Reads from right to left; essay reads from left to right.

Translated from the Japanese.

Includes bibliographical references.

Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of comics’ most celebrated and influential artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book ever to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge's stand-in Sukezo Sukegawa takes on a series of unconventional jobs -- used camera salesman, ferryman, and stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan. Accompanied by an essay from translator Ryan Holmberg that discusses Tsuge’s importance in comics and Japanese literature, The Man Without Talent is one of the great works of comics literature.

Graphic novels.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Holmberg, Ryan.

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