The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud -

Kuniko Tsurita

Drawn and Quarterly

2020

258 páginas

8h 36m

ISBN-10: 1770463984

The work of a visionary and iconoclastic feminist cartoonist―available in English for the first time

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud collects the best short stories from Kuniko Tsurita’s remarkable career. While the works of her male peers in literary manga are widely reprinted, this formally ambitious and poetic female voice is like none other currently available to an English readership. A master of the comics form, expert pacing and compositions combined with bold characters are signature qualities of Tsurita's work.

Tsurita’s early stories “Nonsense” and “Anti” provide a unique, intimate perspective on the bohemian culture and political heat of late 1960s and early ‘70s Tokyo. Her work gradually became darker and more surreal under the influence of modern French literature and her own prematurely failing health. As in works like “The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud” and “Max,” the gender of many of Tsurita's strong and sensual protagonists is ambiguous, marking an early exploration of gender fluidity. Late stories like "Arctic Cold" and "Flight" show the artist experimenting with more conventional narrative modes, though with dystopian themes that extend the philosophical interests of her early work.

An exciting and essential gekiga collection, The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud is translated by the comics scholar Ryan Holmberg and includes an afterword cowritten by Holmberg and manga editor Mitsuhiro Asakawa delineating Tsurita's importance and historical relevance.

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O livro é organizado em ordem cronológica e devo admitir que as primeiras histórias me deixaram um pouco confusa, mas depois me peguei bastante envolvida. As histórias não têm sequência e são diferentes.
É um livro que mostra muito sobre a experiência da autora confrontando a própria morte por meio do surrealismo e de histórias meio fantasiosas (segundo a introdução do livro, ela descobriu cedo que tinha lúpus e morreu aos 37 anos). Bastante delicado e eu achei o traço dela muito bonito. Particularmente gostei muito do jeito como ela usa sombras e cores chapadas (branco e preto) contrastadas com as hachuras.
Pra mim foi uma experiência diferente de outros mangás que já li porque as histórias são mais adultas e mais filosóficas. Gostei!