The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud (Graphic Novel)

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud (Graphic Novel)
Tsurita Kuniko
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NZ$ 62.99
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NZ$ 51.97
Trade Paperback
h213 x 156mm - 258pg
21 Jul 2020 CAN
International import eta 7-19 days
9781770463981
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The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud collects the best short stories from Kuniko Tsurita s remarkable career. While the works of her male peers in literary manga are widely reprinted, this formally ambitious and poetic female voice is like none other currently available to an English readership. A master of the comics form, expert pacing and compositions combined with bold characters are signature qualities of Tsurita' s work. Tsurita s early stories Nonsense and Anti provide a unique, intimate perspective on the bohemian culture and political heat of late 1960s and early 70s Tokyo. Her work gradually became darker and more surreal under the influence of modern French literature and her own prematurely failing health. As in works like The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud and Max, the gender of many of Tsurita' s strong and sensual protagonists is ambiguous, marking an early exploration of gender fluidity. Late stories like Arctic Cold and Flight show the artist experimenting with more conventional narrative modes, though with dystopian themes that extend the philosophical interests of her early work. An exciting and essential gekiga collection, The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud is translated by comics scholar Ryan Holmberg and includes an afterword cowritten by Holmberg and the manga editor Mitsuhiro Asakawa delineating Tsurita' s importance and historical relevance.
Kuniko Tsurita was born in 1947 in Japan. In 1965, at age 18, while still in high school, she debuted in the legendary alt-manga monthly Garo, where she was the magazine s first and only regular female contributor until the late 1970s. Tsurita s early work reflects her interest in bohemian youth culture, while her later work became more surreal and dystopian, with influences ranging from modern French literature to the manga of her peers in Garo, including Yoshiharu Tsuge, Seiichi Hayashi, and Shigeru Mizuki, for whom she worked as an assistant for a short time in the late 60s. In 1973, Tsurita was diagnosed with lupus, at which point specters of death began to heavily shadow her work. She died in 1985 at age thirty-seven.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781770463981
Published: 21 Jul 2020
Published In: Canada
Imprint: Drawn and Quarterly
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 213mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 258

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