Oba Electroplating Factory Yaroslav Astapeev Anthony Clark

Anthony Clark

And if becoming a dictator sounds intriguing

annoying neighbors

and poetic

are further intertwined as she recounts her many sexual liaisons including those with Henry Miller (whom she and her husband subsidize so he can write the controversial Tropic of Cancer)

Oba Electroplating Factory Yaroslav Astapeev Anthony ClarkBy Yoshiharu Tsuge. Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Hardcover, 272 pages, B&W, 2024 (originally published in Japanese in 1973 1974) An alt manga legend strikes out on his own, creating some of his most revealing and personal works Oba Electroplating Factory is a startlingly bleak but nonetheless captivating portrait of mid century Japan in its most unglamorous iteration. Glimpses of the artist reflecting upon his life, his work, and his contemporaries