The Man Without Talent is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs—used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector—hoping to find success among the hucksters, speculators, and deadbeats he does business with. Instead, he fails again and again, unable to provide for his family, earning only their contempt and his own. The result is a dryly funny look at the pitfalls of the creative life, and an off-kilter portrait of modern Japan. 
 
(Source: New York Review Books)

1. Taikutsu na Heya (退屈な部屋), Weekly Manga Sunday 1975-10 
2. Sakana Ishi (魚石), Big Gold No. 4 (November 1979) 
3. Hi no Tawamure (日の戯れ), Custom Comic No. 11 (January 1981) 
4. Sanpo no Hibi (散歩の日々), COMIC Baku No. 1 (June 1984) 
5. Ikebukuro Hyakutenkai (池袋百点会), COMIC Baku No. 3 (December 1984) 
6. Tonari no Onna (隣りの女), COMIC Baku No. 4 (May 1985) 
7.-12. Munou no Hito (無能の人, The Man Without Talent), COMIC Baku No. 5-9, 11 (June 1985 to December 1986)

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