Description
| Product ID: | 9781942801122 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Boat Life Vol. 1 |
| Authors: | Author: Tadao Tsuge, Ryan Holmberg |
| Page Count: | 324 |
| Subjects: | Manga and East Asian style / tradition comic books, Graphic novels: Manga |
| Description: | 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 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 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 Yoshiharu’s The Man Without Talent will appreciate the more relaxed and optimistic take on middle-aged reclusion and the grind of work and family. |
| Imprint Name: | Floating World Comics |
| Publisher Name: | Alternative Comics |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-01-19 |
