RIP Yoshiharu Tsuge

Image from The Man Without Talent.

The news broke early this morning that Yoshiharu Tsuge, the enormously influential mangaka, died of aspiration pneumonia on March 3. He was 88.

It's hard to overstate the influence Tsuge had on the manga artists that followed him, not to mention the western cartoonists that became aware of his work through the small dribs and drabs that occasionally saw light in anthologies (or an anniversary issue of TCJ), or more recently through the volumes released by Drawn and Quarterly and NYRC (thanks largely to translator Ryan Holmberg).

We do, of course, plan to have a more official remembrance up on the site in the near future. For now, however, here are some links to our past reviews of and essays on Tsuge's work:

• The Man Without Talent, reviewed by Brian Nicholson
• The Swamp, reviewed by Joe McCulloch
• Red Flowers, reviewed by Chris Mautner
• Scenes from a Marriage: Fujiwara Make and Tsuge Yoshiharu, by Hagai Palevsky
• Yoshiharu Tsuge's Vagabond Rapists by Helen Chazan
• Oba's Electroplating Factory, reviewed by Tom Shapira

We'll also note that Tom Devlin has penned a nice appreciation of Tsuge over on Drawn and Quarterly's site.

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