Tadao Tsuge

Tsuge has been drawing comics since the late 1950s. In the 1960s and 1970s he was one of the central contributors to the underground comics magazine Garo and the magazines Yako and Gento. In addition to cartooning Tsuge is an avid fisherman and has written essays on the subject. He has held fulltime bluecollar jobs for most of his artistic career most significantly on the cleaning staff at one of Tokyos forprofit blood banks which figures prominently in a number of his works. In 1995 cultfilm director Teru Ishii made a movie based on Tsuges comics. Tsuge lives in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo. Source: Drawn Quarterly