Boat Life Vol. 1
by
Tadao Tsuge
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Boat Life
ISBN-10
1942801122
ISBN-13
9781942801122
Publisher
Alternative Comics
Imprint
Floating World Comics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 19th, 2023
Print length
324 Pages
Weight
558 grams
Dimensions
14.90 x 21.10 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Graphic novels: Manga
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After thirty years as a mainstay in the alt-manga periodicals Garo, Yagyo, and Comic Baku, cult comics artist Tsuge Tadao gets philosophical with Boat Life.
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 artists 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 Tsuges. Others occur at the artists 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 après-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 Yoshiharus The Man Without Talent will appreciate the more relaxed and optimistic take on middle-aged reclusion and the grind of work and family. |
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