Serialized between 1996 and 2000, Boat Life stars novelist Tsuda Kenta, a lightly veiled stand-in for the artist, Tsuge Tadao, himself, as he pursues a life of reprieve and reverie on a small, makeshift house boat on a river outside of Tokyo. Based loosely on the artist¿s own daily life, this charming story follows the hapless protagonist on a series of magical absurdist quests, featuring a panoply of personable characters, including a drunkard fisherman, a pervy monk, a talking corpse, a senile hermit, and a half-supportive, half-doubtful wife and adult son. Most of the scenes take place on the Tonegawa River in Chiba, a favorite fishing spot of Tsuge¿s. Others occur at the artist¿s home or at Joker, a jeans and apparel shop the Tsuges opened in 1977. While fans of Trash Market and Slum Wolf will enjoy this late-career elaboration of apr¿guerre themes Tsuge has been exploring since his debut in the legendary alt-manga magazine Garo in the late ¿60s, fans of his brother Tsuge Yoshiharu
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<p><b>Dark and funny comics from a <i>Garo </i>magazine manga-ka<br></b><br>Tadao Tsuge was one of the key contributors to the legendary avant-garde Japanese comics magazine <i>Garo</i> during its...
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<b>A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants.</b><br><br>Tadao Tsuge is one of the pioneers of alternative manga, and one of the world’s...
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<p>This book is about fixing up old boats made of wood. For many people, a boat isn''t a boat unless it''s made of wood. The psychological and philosophical reasons for needing to own a boat made from honest trees instead of...
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