OBA plating factory
writer: Yoshiharu Tsuge
artist: Yoshiharu Tsuge
translate: Ryan Holmberg
Lettering: Anna Haifisch
Publisher: Draw and quarterly
Publication date: August 13, 2024
Rating: Mature
Type: Life Comics
Drawn and Quarterly Volume 4 published the collection of The Elders, conducting seven stories from 1973 and 1974 to experiment with more autobiographical narratives inspired by popular genres of literary novels. The titular story “OBA Plating Factory” draws on Tsuge’s childhood memories of working for a similar type of small factory (and all the horrors of hints), while other stories come from other teenagers and other experiences in their twenties.
I’ve read it safflower and swamp This is not my first experience with Tsuge before this volume. I have to say that I prefer his travels, the observation story of the town, rather than the candid portrayal of post-war poverty that is caught in the spotlight in this book, but his art is still absolutely skilled in portraying character and environment. He was particularly shocked in the way he drew rivers in Hanyu in “Wasteland Inn”: Despite the absolute rendering technology minimalism, despite the absolute minimalism, although white and still, it was obviously a river filled with water.
I also like his narrator always looks a bit like a puppet. I think his face is very charming, both timeless and stale.
Tsuge’s work reminds me of Shigeru Mizuki, for good reason: He was an assistant to Mizuki Studio at Mizukipro Mizukipro, and for much of his early career, Holmberg detailed the incident in Reverse Magazine at the end of this volume. Holmberg’s papers are honestly worthy of admission only: his depth of research and the precision of his analysis mean they add valuable context to the comics, which, although in itself, are different from the time and place of the present.
One of the topics discussed in the article is how Tsuge is influenced by I-Novels, a type of Japanese literature similar to automation, in which the events of the story correspond to events in the author’s life, is the most famous example of the West, which is probably Osamu Dazai’s Osamu Dazai’s. No longer human. read Not human anymore I did notice for the first time a few weeks ago there were some similarities in the narrative voice of the Tsuge Yoshio character and Dazai’s Yozo. Yoshio is less frustrating than Yozo’s character, and I think that’s at least partly because, in comic form, the reader is not on the head of the character as it does in prose narratives. It must be conveyed by shabby interiors, vacant backgrounds filled with grass and dirty villages, and the keen expressions of the people around Yoshio. (But Yoshio may not be as frustrated as Yozo, who is a very easy bar to clear.) Beautiful scenery! Euphoric little face.
The story in this book has been fifty years, but many of the complex emotions are expressed in the medium of comics, which can still be evident even today. There are more stories in this volume than stories in the story safflower, Several people are concerned about extramarital affair with the inn owner and the consequences of such a sensation, inspired by the real fling pie (according to Holmberg’s article). When gathering together in this way, the narrator’s subject visits to shabby and remote hotels begin to feel repetitive, although the explanations of the story vary from story to story. But bringing them together also makes it clear that the “people I miss” is at least partly about the process of creating “Young People in Yoshio”, which may not be obvious if the two stories were published separately.
Drawn and quarterly series of works by Yoshiharu Tsuge collects two types of stories: comics on comic pages, and the meta-man of Tsuge’s development and growth as an artist, from his first foray into art Gekiga Manga to his artistic ripeness in the industry to his maturity in the industry, creating a part of a variety of magazines and Magaz. Each volume entertains me and is more knowledgeable about the world I had barely known before. OBA plating factory It is a meditative, deeply saddened, sometimes very interesting collection, and at the same time very interesting. I look forward to the next volume released in August 2025.
OBA plating factory Can be purchased directly from the publisher here.
