23 Facts About Yoshiharu Tsuge

Yoshiharu Tsuge is a Japanese cartoonist and essayist.

Yoshiharu Tsuge was active in comics between 1955 and 1987.

Yoshiharu Tsuge has garnered the most attention from the surrealistic works he had published in the late 1960s in the avant-garde magazine Garo.

When rental comics ceased to be viable employment in the mid-1960s, Yoshiharu Tsuge was in dire straits until he was picked up by the publishers of the avant garde comics magazine Garo.

Yoshiharu Tsuge's works became alternately autobiographical and erotically fantastic, until health and psychological problems drove him from comics after 1987.

Yoshiharu Tsuge has had a long-lasting influence, and his works have been adapted to film and television numerous times.

Yoshiharu Tsuge was born on 30 October 1937 in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan.

The recession in post-World War II Japan, inspired Yoshiharu Tsuge to create comics to the pay-libraries' editors in an attempt to solve his financial problems.

Yoshiharu Tsuge created his first gekiga at 18, showing Osamu Tezuka's influence, who was one of the first mainstream artists to draw gekiga.

Yoshiharu Tsuge began his cartooning career contributing to the kashibon rental comics market which flourished in the 1950s.

Yoshiharu Tsuge found himself debt-ridden, and would sell blood to raise money.

Yoshiharu Tsuge began contributing to Garo in a style with cartoony figures and realistic backgrounds.

In February 1968, Yoshiharu Tsuge became involved with the avant-garde actress and children's book illustrator Maki Fujiwara.

Yoshiharu Tsuge was one of a number of cartoonists who found themselves unable to cope with the changes in the industry in the 1970s.

Yoshiharu Tsuge's last published work of comics was "Parting" in June 1987, in which the main character attempts suicide after a relationship breaks up.

Yoshiharu Tsuge withdrew into a private life with his family, where they lived by the Tama River in Tokyo.

Yoshiharu Tsuge has lived with his son since his wife's 1999 death from cancer.

Yoshiharu Tsuge's brother Tadao Yoshiharu Tsuge is a cartoonist.

In 1966, Yoshiharu Tsuge suffered from another onset of depression and stopped drawing his own manga to be Shigeru Mizuki's assistant.

Gilles Laborderie in Indy Magazine notes that Yoshiharu Tsuge "tries to create a pace through careful narrative techniques rather than through grand dramatic events" and compares his style to Yoshihiro Tatsumi's.

Yoshiharu Tsuge's work has been collected many times in a variety of formats.

Yoshiharu Tsuge's works have generally been divided into pre-Garo, Garo, and post-Garo phases.

Yoshiharu Tsuge has had an influence on a large number of Japanese cartoonists.