He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid
$52.53
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2026
Summary
A manga icon’s most perplexing, transgressive, and astounding work of horror and surrealism.
By the mid-1970s, Tsuge Yoshiharu was a man changed by circumstance—something his work from 1975 to 1981 boldly reveals. After settling into married life with fellow artist Fujiwara Maki, Tsuge would return to the narrative formulas that he knew best: tall tales exchanged between fellow travelers, macabre parables tinged with magical realism, and the enduring comedy of the domestic everyday in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770467804 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770467807 |
| Author: | Yoshiharu Tsuge, Ryan Holmberg |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 806g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 169mm x 222mm |
| Series: | Yoshiharu Tsuge (#5) |
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Critics Review
“Tsuge throws open his inner gates of possibility and lets the world rush in with all its complexity, humanity, beauty, uncertainty and violence.” —Chris Ware, The Washington Post
“A gritty and humorous postwar Japan is depicted in these early works by the influential manga cartoonist.” —The Guardian
“Tsuge’s raw and profound work is equal parts pathos and poetry, streaked with irony and ribaldry.” —Kirkus, Starred Review
“Exemplary… an elucidating glimpse into modern manga’s origins.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“[Tsuge] draw[s] horror from unflinching realism.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Yoshiharu Tsuge
Yoshiharu Tsuge was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1937. Influenced by the realistic and gritty manga of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, he began making his own comics and was briefly recruited to assist Shigeru Mizuki in the 1960s.
In 1968, while working for Garo magazine, Tsuge published the groundbreaking story “Neji-shiki” (commonly called “Screw Style” by Western readers), which established him as an influential manga-ka and a cultural touchstone in the changing Japanese art world. He is considered the originator and greatest practitioner of the I-novel method of comics-making.
In 2005, Tsuge was nominated for the Best Album Award at Angoulame International and in 2017 won the Japan Cartoonists Association Grand Award for Yume to tabi no sekai. Tsuge passed away in early 2026.
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