Yoshiharu Tsuge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Yoshiharu Tsuge

cartoonist

Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1937

Place of Birth: Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Profession: writer, mangaka, essayist, drawer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Yoshiharu Tsuge

  • Yoshiharu Tsuge (????, Tsuge Yoshiharu, born 30 October 1937) is a Japanese cartoonist and essayist.
  • He was active in comics between 1955 and 1987.
  • His works range from tales of ordinary life to dream-like surrealism, and often show his interest in traveling about Japan.
  • He has garnered the most attention from the surrealistic works he had published in the late 1960s in the avant-garde magazine Garo. Tsuge began producing comics in 1955 for the rental comics industry that flourished in impoverished post-War Japan.
  • Initially, he made comics in the hard-boiled gekiga style–dark, realistic tales with negative endings.
  • When rental comics ceased to be viable employment in the mid-1960s, Tsuge was in dire straits until he was picked up by the publishers of the avant garde comics magazine Garo.
  • From 1965 to 1970, he entered his most widely known phase when he produced often surrealistic and introspective works for Garo.
  • The June 1968 issue saw the most famous of these: the dream-based "Neji-shiki" (most commonly rendered "Screw Style" in English).
  • Following his success in Garo, Tsuge became withdrawn, and from the 1970s no longer had his works published in that magazine.
  • He works became alternately autobiographical and erotically fantastic, until health and psychological problems drove him from comics after 1987. Tsuge has become a cult figure in Japan.
  • In the West, his status is often compared to that of American cartoonist Robert Crumb.
  • He has had a long-lasting influence, and his works have been adapted to film and television numerous times.
  • His works have rarely been translated–in English, only three short works have appeared.
  • Since 1987, he has stopped producing comics, and has lived a quiet life with his son in Tokyo since his wife's death in 1999, occasionally cooperating with adaptations and reproductions of his past work.

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