Oba Electroplating Factory Derek M. Ballard playfully hinting at possible transcendence:

playfully hinting at possible transcendence: from one’s culture

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Oba Electroplating Factory Derek M. Ballard playfully hinting at possible transcendence:By 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