Boat Life 1, Tsuge Tadao, Ryan Holmberg
In English, 324 pages in black and white, softcover, 15.24 x 20.32 cm. Floating World Comics, December 2022
A series published between 1996 and 2000, Boat Life stars novelist Tsuda Kenta, a slightly veiled version of the artist himself, Tsuge Tadao, as he seeks a life of rest and daydreaming in a small makeshift houseboat on a river outside Tokyo. Based loosely on the artist's own daily life, this charming story follows the hapless protagonist on a series of magical and absurd adventures, with a panoply of captivating characters, including a drunken fisherman, a perverted monk, a talking corpse, a senile hermit and a supportive wife and adult son. but they also doubt him.
