{"product_id":"a-nobody-artist","title":"A Nobody Artist","description":"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, 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.This 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.","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46076067479743,"sku":"9781770468597","price":58.05,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/files\/458500-14b12340053a2e72b6dfbeda14d66d89b0f98107151cdaf91d3ef18d6ab5d7c2.jpg?v=1787465840","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/a-nobody-artist","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}