Tadao Tsuge is one of the pioneers of alternative manga, and one of the world’s great artists of the down-and-out.
In assured, elegantly gritty art, Tsuge depicts a legendary, aging brawler, a slowly unraveling businessman, a group of damaged veterans uniting to form a shantytown, and an array of punks, pimps, and drunks, all struggling for freedom, meaning, or just survival.
Drawn & Quarterly previously published Trash Market, another collection of manga by Tsuge, which includes Up on the Hilltop, Vincent van Gogh… and Song of Showa, as well as the titular story.