{"product_id":"a-nobody-artist-foc-october-12-2026","title":"A Nobody Artist FOC October 12, 2026","description":"PRE ORDER FOC DATE October 12, 2026 \/ ON SALE DATE November 10, 2026 \u003cp\u003eA revealing glimpse into the life and times of alt-manga’s most intriguing comics auteurTsuge Yoshiharu remains an elusive and highly influential character as he moves into the final phase of his career. A Nobody Artist features a number of loosely (and disputably) semiautobiographical vignettes often concerning a young cartoonist trying to make a go of it in the shifting manga market. True to form, Tsuge delivers much more than a straight accounting of a cartoonist’s life. Lust routinely distracts our young artists while older artists again and again provide a model for what not to do, or more likely, where a cartoonist’s life will lead you. Fleeting moments of domestic happiness are upset by bouts of self-doubt. As always, Tsuge’s art is succinct and glorious—a beautiful document of a changing Japan.This penultimate volume in Drawn and Quarterly’s complete collection of the manga-ka’s oeuvre collects richly-detailed and deeply human comics stories originally published between 1981 and 1985. Translated by prolific manga scholar and art historian Ryan Holmberg.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/runeworkscomics.myshopify.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/902f9e0b-9bf0-48b2-a5cd-5ebcf07e6b94_4f0ce7c1-dad6-4447-b796-a88faeebe946.png?v=1773693174\u0026amp;width=750\"\u003e","brand":"PRH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54329438142832,"sku":"9781770468597","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/2318\/6800\/files\/9781770468597.jpg?v=1789672385","url":"https:\/\/runeworkscomics.com\/products\/a-nobody-artist-foc-october-12-2026","provider":"RUNE WORKS COMICS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}