Tsuge Tadao

A collection of short stories filled with tranquility and sorrow, depicting daily lives of people.

(from ebookjapan): Highly recommended by Ryoichi Ikegami!　 "The man, sometimes with a sharp glance, quietly gazes at us living in the present..." In downtown Tokyo just after the defeat in World War II - in a burnt-out area where the values of the war years have been shattered - demobilized soldiers, Yakuza, gamblers, drug dealers, brawlers, and Ladies of the Night are living strong. One boy watches the lives of these outlaws as they cross paths and mature... Currently serialized in COMIC MeDu, an all-encompassing webmanga platform that is open to works of any genre!　 The long-awaited tankobon of the new essay work by the legendary gekigaka depicting bewitchingly shining men in the postwar downtown area!

This work contains two newly drawn works "Yasakura Shura," "Narigo" and both remake and original 1969 Garo version of "Natsukashi no Melody."

A collection of Tadao Tsuge's early works. Contains 16 stories.

This work contains 6 stories: Sasakureta Fuukei (ささくれた風景) Saikai (再会) Slump no Koro (スランプのころ) Last One (ラストワン) Mayonaka no Yuugi (真夜中の遊戯) Kusen no Hito (苦戦の人)

A massive, 1200 page anthology gathering one-shots from every Garo mangaka up until 1984.

(from ebookjapan): Night. A man is alone, sheltering from the rain on a dreary street corner. He lights a cigarette. Suddenly, an old man wearing sunglasses, who had been there for some time, approached him and asked, "Can I borrow your light?" The two stood in silence, smoking cigarettes, when the man suddenly realized that the old man with the sunglasses had once been in the same place as him. The man realized that the old man with the sunglasses was the same " Kamikaze Sabu" who had once made a name for himself in this town. The man's heart was pounding in his chest, but he couldn't ask the old man about it. (From the title story, "Legend of the Wolf") This is a masterpiece collection of short stories by Tadao Tsuge, a master of Gekiga, depicting the intense lives of men crawling around with a melancholy yet somehow gentle gaze.

Oneshot translated as 'Vagabond Plain' in the English release for Slum Wolf (from ebookjapan): One day a man crouched down on the river bank and watched the dancing ears of grass for two or three hours, then plodded into that sea-like land of the unknown... He had no purpose... There were so many people who had no choice but to walk around and lie and lie and lie. Men piled up junk they had gathered from somewhere...and made a house. The house looked like a mushroom that had crawled out of desperation... (from the title story "Scoundrel's Field"/"Vagabond Plain") This is a masterpiece collection of short stories by Tadao Tsuge, a master of Gekiga, depicting the intense lives of men crawling around with a sorrowful yet somehow gentle gaze!

Tadao Tsuge was one of the key contributors to the legendary avant-garde Japanese comics magazine Garo during its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s, renowned for his unpretentious journalistic storytelling and clear, eloquent cartooning. Trash Market brings together six of Tsuge’s compelling, character-driven stories about life in post–World War II Japan. “Trash Market” and “Gently Goes the Night” touch on key topics for Tsuge: the charming lowlifes of the Tokyo slums and the veterans who found themselves unable to forget the war. “Song of Showa” is an autobiographical piece about growing up in a Tokyo slum during the occupation with an abusive grandfather and an ailing father, and finding brightness in the joyful people of the neighborhood. Trash Market blurs the lines between fiction and reportage; it’s a moving testament to the grittiness of life in Tokyo during the postwar years.