{"product_id":"boat-life-volume-01","title":"Boat Life Volume 01","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSerialized between 1996 and 2000, Boat Life stars novelist Tsuda Kenta, a lightly veiled stand-in for the artist, Tsuge Tadao, himself, as he pursues a life of reprieve and reverie on a small, makeshift house boat on a river outside of Tokyo. Based loosely on the artist’s own daily life, this charming story follows the hapless protagonist on a series of magical absurdist quests, featuring a panoply of personable characters, including a drunkard fisherman, a pervy monk, a talking corpse, a senile hermit, and a half-supportive, half-doubtful wife and adult son. Most of the scenes take place on the Tonegawa River in Chiba, a favorite fishing spot of Tsuge’s. Others occur at the artist’s home or at Joker, a jeans and apparel shop the Tsuges opened in 1977. While fans of Trash Market and Slum Wolf will enjoy this late-career elaboration of après-guerre themes Tsuge has been exploring since his debut in the legendary alt-manga magazine Garo in the late ‘60s, fans of his brother Tsuge Yoshiharu’s The Man Without Talent will appreciate the more relaxed and optimistic take on middle-aged reclusion and the grind of work and family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Floating World Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48601580962024,"sku":"9781942801122","price":38.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2539\/0094\/files\/61tUi09a2cL._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65.webp?v=1780158209","url":"https:\/\/dragonguelph.com\/products\/boat-life-volume-01","provider":"DragonGuelph","version":"1.0","type":"link"}