Nejishiki DW we are invited to discover

we are invited to discover people and things in the author's life that helped shape and inform her LGBTQ identity

and twentieth-century literary and cultural studies

assimilation and life in San Jose as a refugee

zany illustrations

By Lala Albert

Nejishiki DW we are invited to discoverBy Yoshiharu Tsuge. Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Hardcover, 252 pages, B&W, 2023 (originally published in Japanese in 1968 1972) The most critically acclaimed comic of the Japanese counterculture Nejishiki unveils the most iconic scenes from Yoshiharu Tsuges highly respected body of work alongside his most beloved stories. A cornerstone of Japans legendary 1960s counterculture that galvanized avant garde manga and comics criticism, the title story