{"product_id":"he-rolled-me-up-like-a-grilled-squid-9781770467804","title":"He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA manga icon?s most perplexing, transgressive, and astounding work of horrorand surrealism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBy the mid-1970s, Tsuge Yoshiharu was a man changed by circumstance?something hiswork from 1975 to 1981 boldly reveals. After settling into married life with fellow artistFujiwara Maki (author of Eisner-winning \u003ci\u003eMy Picture Diary\u003c\/i\u003e), Tsuge would return to thenarrative formulas that he knew best: tall tales exchanged between fellow travelers,macabre parables tinged with magical realism, and the enduring comedy of the domesticeveryday in a Japan rebuilding itself in the decades following the Second World War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet the confusion and mental illness simmering beneath the surface of his moresurreal works come to a rolling boil, reaching an unsettling and horrific crescendo in aseries of nightmarish delusions. \u003ci\u003eHe Rolled Me Up Like A Grilled Squid \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures a midcareerauthor taking stock of his anxieties and suspicions while connecting the dotsbetween his seemingly monotonous present and his complicated past. Confrontationsbetween both periods in his life are explored through the lens of his deteriorating mentalstate, expressed directly through experiments with different visual styles collected in thisvolume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by prolific art and comics historian Ryan Holmberg, \u003ci\u003eHe Rolled Me Up Like AGrilled Squid \u003c\/i\u003eis a veteranstoryteller?s most compelling observations about people at their most human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53190347555159,"sku":"9781770467804","price":22.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/he-rolled-me-up-like-a-grilled-squid-9781770467804","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}