Screw-Style

by Yoshiharu Tsuge

A man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins...

Tsuge's 3rd-only English translated work, a sensational and controversial piece that stunned American audiences when published in issue #250 of The Comics Journal. One of Tsuge's "dream stories".

Genres: Manga, Comics, Comics Manga, Graphic Novels Comics

23 pages, One-shot

First published June 1, 1968

About the author

Influenced by the adventure comics of Osamu Tezuka and the gritty mystery manga of Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Masahiko Matsumoto, Yoshiharu Tsuge began making his own comics in the mid-1950s. He was also briefly recruited to assist Shigeru Mizuki during his explosion of popularity in the 1960s. In 1968, Tsuge published the groundbreaking, surrealistic story "Nejishiki" in the legendary alternative manga magazine Garo. This story established Tsuge as not only an influential manga-ka but also a major figure within Japan's counter-culture and art world at large. He is considered the originator and greatest practitioner of the semi-autobiographical "I-novel" genre of making comics. In 2005, Tsuge was nominated for the Best Album Award at Angoulême International, and in 2017 a survey of his work, A World Of Dreams And Travel, won the Japan Cartoonists Association Grand Award.

Reviews

[Bill Hsu · Rating 4 out of 5]

I first came across this when it appeared in the Comics Journal. Wow.

It's now online. And also in Nejishiki.

[Jess]

i have no idea what i just read but i loved it

[Karl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bizarre, yet love-able. Some really fine art mixed with some truly terrible.

[George Dibble · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5

Really amazing--surreal, funny, tense, symbolic. And wow, the art is so insanely beautiful. This is top quality. Will be returning to it again, for sure.