Slum Wolf

<b>A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks gangsters and vagrants.</b><br><br>Tadao Tsuge is one of the pioneers of alternative manga and one of the world&#146;s great artists of the down-and-out. <i>Slum Wolf </i>is a new selection of his stories from the late Sixties and Seventies never before available in English: a vision of Japan as a world of bleary bars and rundown flophouses vicious street fights and strange late-night visions. 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.<br><br> With an extensive introduction by translator and comics historian Ryan Holmberg this collection brings together some of Tsuge&#146;s most powerful work&#151;raucous lyrical and unforgettable.