Yoshiharu Tsugeつげ義春alternative words: Tsuge Yoshiharu keywords: author , manga related topics: Garo , Nejishiki related web sites: http://tokyo.cool.ne.jp/nori69/ explanation: Born in April 1937 at Tokyo. As many persons of this generation, he had suffered greatly of economic disaster after WWII but his situation was at extreme because he had to sell his own blood to survive. He began to publish manga on rental books since 1955 but it is Nejishiki (screw method) published in 1968 on Garo which brought him a fame. Some people don't hesitate to qualify him as the most genius mangaka because of his style which makes manga appear as a real novel. | |