Slum Wolf

By Tadao Tsuge

Subjects: Crime & Mystery, General, Comic books, strips, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, Literary, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS, Comics & graphic novels, manga, general, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Manga / Crime & Mystery, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Manga / General, Manga

Description: "A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants. Though virtually unknown in the United States, Tadao Tsuge is one of the original masters of alternative manga, and one of the world's great artists of the down-and-out. Never before available in English, this new selection of his stories from the late sixties and the seventies depicts the lives of punks, vagrants, gangsters, and other lost souls with gritty lyricism. It is a raucous, exhilarating vision of street brawls and dive bars, shantytowns and brothels, and an unsettling portrait of postwar Japan"--