{"product_id":"trash-market","title":"Trash Market","description":"\u003cp\u003eDark and funny comics from a Garo magazine mangakaTadao Tsuge was one of the key contributors to the legendary avantgarde Japanese comics magazine Garo during its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s, renowned for his unpretentious journalistic storytelling and clear, eloquent cartooning. Trash Market brings together six of Tsuges compelling, characterdriven stories about life in postWorld War II Japan.Trash Market and Gently Goes the Night touch on key topics for Tsuge: the charming lowlifes of the Tokyo slums and the veterans who found themselves unable to forget the war. Song of Showa is an autobiographical piece about growing up in a Tokyo slum during the occupation with an abusive grandfather and an ailing father, and finding brightness in the joyful people of the neighborhood. Trash Market blurs the lines between fiction and reportage; its a moving testament to the grittiness of life in Tokyo during the postwar years.Trash Market features an essay from the collections editor and translator, Ryan Holmberg, who is a specialist in Japanese art history. He explores Tsuges early career as a cartoonist and the formative years the artist spent working in Tokyos notorious forprofit blood banks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45900460523718,"sku":"DADAX1770461744","price":63.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/911r8i8tN-S.jpg?v=1780313337","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/trash-market","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}