Translation
How this work reached other languages: Drawn and Quarterly's Tsuge and Tatsumi, Last Gasp's Maruo, PictureBox's Nemoto, Breakdown Press.
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30 moments in this segment.
- - Monster Men Bueriko Lullaby. Dan Nadel turns through the PictureBox edition of Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby on camera, showing how Nemoto's swollen figures and their fluids sit on the printed page.
- - Movie Review - Eric Khoo's 'Tatsumi'. A Singapore broadcast review of Eric Khoo's feature, noting that he went to hand drawn animation at a moment when studios were moving to three dimensions.
- - The Strange Tale of Panorama Island. Last Gasp presents Maruo's adaptation of the Edogawa Rampo story, pages fanned past the camera to show the colour plates.
- - HELL. Unfinished footage from the Hell segment of Eric Khoo's Tatsumi film, handed out as a sound design assignment and scored here with newly recorded music and foley.
- - Dr. Ryan Holmberg's Talk at Manga/Comics and Translation Symposium at Baruch College. A campus talk on what happens when Japanese comics are carried into English, given to a symposium convened on translation at Baruch College.
- - L'uomo senza talento di Yoshiharu Tsuge | I capolavori manga di Kirio1984. An Italian review welcoming L'uomo senza talento into local bookshops, following the stone seller whose business cannot work by design.
- - Should You Read A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi? - Thoughts and Impressions. A reader weighs whether the eight hundred page autobiography rewards the time, given how much of it is spent on deadlines and studio arguments.
- - Alternative Manga Spotlight: Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby. A reader's account of the PictureBox edition of Takashi Nemoto's Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby, whose mutating bodies, semen and excrement are drawn in a crude bulging line that refuses any clean surface.
- - Manga Review: The Strange Tale of Panorama Island. A reading of the Panorama Island adaptation, following the impostor who seizes another man's life and builds an island to his own design.
- - Alternative Manga Spotlight: Yukiko's Spinach. Frederic Boilet's Yukiko's Spinach in the Ponent Mon edition, a French cartoonist working in Tokyo and drawing the affair he was having there.
- - Alternative Manga Spotlight: The Box Man. Imiri Sakabashira's The Box Man from Drawn & Quarterly, a wordless ride through a landscape that keeps reassembling itself around the rider.
- - The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge: An Interview with Ryan Holmberg. Drawn & Quarterly's editor in chief and translator Ryan Holmberg discuss The Swamp, the collection of Yoshiharu Tsuge's early Garo stories, and how his flat affect and dream logic took shape.
- - Alternative Manga Spotlight: The Swamp. A reader works through the Drawn & Quarterly edition of The Swamp, describing how Yoshiharu Tsuge's early stories withhold explanation and leave their rural encounters unresolved.
- - Ryan Holmberg, April 13 2021. Introduced by Ben Katchor, a talk on why cartoonists from the late 1950s kept putting their characters in the same cramped room, cracked window and tattered wall, a kettle and bedding and nothing else.
- - The Strange Tale of Panorama Island from Last Gasp. A long look at the Last Gasp edition of Panorama Island, tracking how Maruo stages Rampo's impostor and the island he builds.
- - The Review No One Asked For Episode 12 - Compare & Contrast The Osamu Tezuka Story & A Drifting Life. Two cartoonist autobiographies set against each other, the Tezuka life story beside A Drifting Life, and what each chooses to leave out.
- - RYAN HOLMBERG Interview: Manga History & Translation. Translator Ryan Holmberg talks through bringing Kuniko Tsurita, Yoshiharu Tsuge, Tadao Tsuge and Shigeru Sugiura into English, and how the Japanese alternative record differs from the one that reached foreign readers.
- - Alternative Manga Spotlight: Red Flowers. The Drawn & Quarterly volume of Red Flowers examined for what the early stories do with silence, part of the seven book Tsuge series Ryan Holmberg is translating.
- - Tsuge Yoshiharu and Chiba Tetsuya inaugural members of the Manga Division of the Japan Art Academy. Tsuge and Tetsuya Chiba were both appointed on 1 March 2022 to a manga division created that year at the Japan Art Academy, the state body admitting the form for the first time.
- - Yokoyama Yuichi - PLAZA - Preview/Interview w/ Translator Ryan Holmberg. Translator Ryan Holmberg previews Yuichi Yokoyama's Plaza and discusses how his approach to rendering Japanese comics into English shifted over his career.
- - Il Libro dei Sogni - Tsuge Y. - Opinioni Manga Flash 28. Canicola's Il Libro dei Sogni gathers the dream pieces, short works where the logic shifts between panels without the story pausing to account for it.
- - Manga Review - The Swamp by Yoshiharu Tsuge - translated by Ryan Holmberg at Drawn & Quarterly. A reader comes to Tsuge through the Holmberg translations of The Swamp and Nejishiki, describing what the stories fill in about the wider history of the form.
- - Manga Review - Nejishiki by Yoshiharu Tsuge - existential questions about good & bad reviews. A companion piece to the same reader's account of The Swamp, spending an hour on the Nejishiki volume and on an earlier notice of it published by The Comics Journal.
- - HEAVEN'S DOOR By KEIICHI KOIKE | Psychedelic Drug Infused Manga w/ Otomo & Mœbius vibes! Last Gasp. Keiichi Koike's Heaven's Door from Last Gasp, its dense linework and dissolving figures set beside the Otomo and Moebius drawing it grew from.
- - The English translated works of Yoshihiro Tatsumi. A run through everything by Tatsumi that has reached English, the Drawn & Quarterly short story collections alongside the autobiography, with notes on what remains untranslated.
- - Yoshihiro Tatsumi Reprints for 2025!. Word of fresh Tatsumi editions arriving in English, with the short story collections returning to print after years of scarcity.
- - Ultra Heaven 1 by Keiichi Koike & published by Last Gasp. Keiichi Koike's Ultra Heaven from Last Gasp, drawn in dense hatching that comes apart as the drug taking in the story escalates.
- - Translating Pros: In Dialogue with Manga Localizers. Ryan Holmberg, Fred Schodt and Zach Davisson compare methods on a festival panel, three translators with long records disagreeing about how close a rendering should sit to the original.
- - The most INFLUENTIAL avant garde mangaka of all time!. A retrospective on what has reached English readers, moving volume by volume through the Drawn & Quarterly series and what each adds to the picture.
- - Anne Ishii in Conversation with Ryan Holmberg | Gay Manga, Gengoroh Tagame & Translating Japanese. Anne Ishii and Ryan Holmberg spend an hour on the practical work of translation, including Ishii's editions of Gengoroh Tagame and what gets decided when a text moves between languages.