TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fujiwara,Maki
AU  - Holmberg,Ryan
ED  - Drawn & Quarterly (Firm),
TI  - My picture diary
SN  - 1770466622
PY  - 2023///
CY  - [Montreal, Quebec]
PB  - Drawn & Quarterly
KW  - Fujiwara, Maki,
KW  - Tsuge, Yoshiharu,
KW  - Actors
KW  - Japan
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Families
KW  - Biographical comics
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Comics (Graphic works)
KW  - Graphic novels
N1  - Includes biographical references
N2  - "In 1981, Fujiwara Maki began a picture diary about daily life with her son and husband, the legendary manga author Tsuge Yoshiharu. Publishing was not her original intention. "I wanted to record our family's daily life while our son, Shosuke, was small. But as 8mm cameras were too expensive and we were poor, I decided on the picture diary format instead. I figured Shosuke would enjoy reading it when he got older." Drawn in a simple, personable style, and covering the same years fictionalized in Tsuge's final masterpiece The Man Without Talent, Fujiwara's journal focuses on the joys of daily life amidst the stresses of childrearing, housekeeping, and managing a depressed husband. A touching and inspiring testimony of one Japanese woman's resilience, My Picture Diary is also an important glimpse of the enigma that is Tsuge. Fujiwara's diary is unsparing. It provides a stark picture of the gender divide in their household: Tsuge sleeps until noon and does practically nothing. He never compliments her cooking, and dictates how money is spent. Not once is he shown drawing. And yet Fujiwara remains surprisingly empathetic toward her mercurial husband."--Amazon
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