{"product_id":"yoshiharu-tsuge-he-rolled-me-up-like-a-grilled-squid","title":"Yoshiharu Tsuge: He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawn and Quarterly, 2026, hardcover, 304 pages, 16.7 x 22.1 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA manga icon’s most perplexing, transgressive, and astounding work of horror and surrealism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy the mid-1970s, Tsuge Yoshiharu was a man changed by circumstance—something his work from 1975 to 1981 boldly reveals. After settling into married life with fellow artist Fujiwara Maki (author of Eisner-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMy Picture Diary\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), Tsuge would return to the narrative formulas that he knew best: tall tales exchanged between fellow travelers, macabre parables tinged with magical realism, and the enduring comedy of the domestic everyday in a Japan rebuilding itself in the decades following the Second World War.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd yet the confusion and mental illness simmering beneath the surface of his more surreal works come to a rolling boil, reaching an unsettling and horrific crescendo in a series of nightmarish delusions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHe Rolled Me Up Like A Grilled Squid\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e captures a mid-career author taking stock of his anxieties and suspicions while connecting the dots between his seemingly monotonous present and his complicated past. Confrontations between both periods in his life are explored through the lens of his deteriorating mental state, expressed directly through experiments with different visual styles collected in this volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by prolific art and comics historian Ryan Holmberg, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHe Rolled Me Up Like A Grilled Squid\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a remarkable catalog of creative experiments alongside a veteran storyteller’s most compelling observations about people at their most human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57880188584320,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/81WRsQCuxRL._SY522__1.jpg?v=1776246331","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/yoshiharu-tsuge-he-rolled-me-up-like-a-grilled-squid","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}