The Man Without Talent
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The Man Without Talent
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Author : YOSHIHARU TSUGE
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2020-01-28
The Man Without Talent written by YOSHIHARU TSUGE and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-28 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
A Japanese manga legend's autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first full-length work by the great Yoshiharu Tsuge available in the English language. Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of comics' most celebrated and influential artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book ever to be translated into English, 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, and 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. Accompanied by an essay from translator Ryan Holmberg that discusses Tsuge's importance in comics and Japanese literature, The Man Without Talent is one of the great works of comics literature.
The Swamp
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Author : Yoshiharu Tsuge
language : en
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Release Date : 2024-08-13
The Swamp written by Yoshiharu Tsuge and has been published by Drawn & Quarterly this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-13 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the tradition of mystery and adventure stories, Tsuge’s fiction focused on the lives of the citizens of Japan. These mesmerizing comics, like those of his contemporary Yoshihiro Tatsumi, reveal a gritty, at times desperate postwar Japan, while displaying Tsuge’s unique sense of humor and point of view. “Chirpy” is a simple domestic drama about expectations, fidelity, and escape. A couple purchase a beautiful white bird with a red beak. It is said that the bird will grow attached to its owners and never fly away. While the girlfriend is working as a hostess, flirting with men for money, the boyfriend decides to draw a portrait of the new family member, and disaster strikes. In “The Swamp,” a simple rural encounter is charged with sexual tension that is alluring but also fraught with danger. When a young woman happens upon a wing-shot goose, she tries to calm it then suddenly snaps its neck. Later, she befriends a young hunter and offers him shelter, but her motivations remain unclear, especially when the hunter notices a snake in the room where they’ll both be sleeping. The Swamp is a landmark in English manga-publishing history and the first in a series of Tsuge books Drawn & Quarterly will be publishing.
How To Draw Without Talent
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Author : Danny Gregory
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-11-26
How To Draw Without Talent written by Danny Gregory and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with Self-Help categories.
Want to draw but don't think you have the talent? This book is for you--no experience or formal training required! Danny Gregory, co-founder of the popular online Sketchbook Skool, shows you how to get started making art for pleasure with fun, easy lessons. Get started fast with just a pen and paper, learn to see your subject with new eyes, and enjoy the creative process.
Red Flowers
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Author : Yoshiharu Tsuge
language : en
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Release Date : 2021-01-26
Red Flowers written by Yoshiharu Tsuge and has been published by Drawn and Quarterly this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
The influential cartoonist hits his stride as he celebrates the charms and oddities of rural postwar culture Yoshiharu Tsuge leaves early genre trappings behind, taking a light, humorous approach in these stories based on his own travels. Red Flowers ranges from deep character studies to personal reflections to ensemble comedies set in the hotels and bathhouses of rural Japan. There are irascible old men, drunken gangsters, reflective psychiatric-hospital escapees, and mysterious dogs. Tsuge’s stories are mischievous and tender even as they explore complex relationships and heartache. It’s a world of extreme poverty, tradition, secret fishing holes, and top-dollar koi farming. The title story highlights the nuance and empathy that made Tsuge’s work stand out from that of his peers. A nameless traveler comes across a young girl running an inn. While showing the traveler where the best fishing hole is, a bratty schoolmate reveals the girl must run the business because her alcoholic father is incapable. At the story’s end, the traveler witnesses an unusual act of kindness from the boy as the girl suffers her first menstrual cramps — and a simple travelogue takes on unexpected depth. Red Flowers affirms why Tsuge went on to become one of the most important cartoonists in Japan. These vital comics inspired a wealth of fictionalized memoir from his peers and a desire within the postwar generation to document and understand the diversity of their country’s culture.
One Page Talent Management
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Author : Marc Effron
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Release Date : 2010-05-18
One Page Talent Management written by Marc Effron and has been published by Harvard Business Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-18 with Business & Economics categories.
A Revolutionary Approach to Talent Management You know that winning in today’s marketplace requires top quality talent. You also know what it takes to build that talent—and you spend significant financial and human resources to make it happen. Yet somehow, your company’s beautifully designed and well-benchmarked processes don’t translate into the bottom-line talent depth you need. Why? Talent management experts Marc Effron and Miriam Ort argue that companies unwittingly add layers of complexity to their talent building models—without evaluating whether those components add any value to the overall process. Consequently, simple processes like setting employee performance goals become multi-page, headache-inducing time-wasters that turn managers off to the whole process and fail to improve results. In this revolutionary book, Effron and Ort introduce One Page Talent Management (OPTM): a powerfully simple approach that significantly accelerates a company’s ability to develop better leaders faster. The authors outline a straightforward, easy-to-use process for designing results-oriented OPTM processes: base every process on proven scientific research; eliminate complexity by including only those components that add real value to the process; and build transparency and accountability into every practice. Based on extensive research and the authors’ hands-on corporate and consulting experience with companies including Avon Products, Bank of America, and Philips, One Page Talent Management shows how to: • Quickly identify high potential talent without complex assessments • Increase the number of “ready now” successors for key roles • Generate 360 feedback that accelerates change in the most critical behaviors • Significantly reduce the time required for managers to implement talent processes • Enforce accountability for growing talent through corporate culture, compensation, etc. A radical new approach to growing talent, One Page Talent Management trades complexity and bureaucracy for simplicity and a relentless focus on adding value to create the high-quality talent you need—right now.
Slum Wolf
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Author : Tadao Tsuge
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-08-28
Slum Wolf written by Tadao Tsuge and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-28 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants. Tadao Tsuge is one of the pioneers of alternative manga, and one of the world’s great artists of the down-and-out. Slum Wolf is a new selection of his stories from the late Sixties and Seventies, never before available in English: a vision of Japan as a world of bleary bars and rundown flophouses, vicious street fights and strange late-night visions. In assured, elegantly gritty art, Tsuge depicts a legendary, aging brawler, a slowly unraveling businessman, a group of damaged veterans uniting to form a shantytown, and an array of punks, pimps, and drunks, all struggling for freedom, meaning, or just survival. With an extensive introduction by translator and comics historian Ryan Holmberg, this collection brings together some of Tsuge’s most powerful work—raucous, lyrical, and unforgettable.
The Land Of Stories The Wishing Spell
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Author : Chris Colfer
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-07-17
The Land Of Stories The Wishing Spell written by Chris Colfer and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-17 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The first book in Chris Colfer's #1 New York Times bestselling series The Land of Stories about two siblings who fall into a fairy-tale world! Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change forever, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic fairy tales. The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with fairy tale characters they grew up reading about. But after a series of encounters with witches, wolves, goblins, and trolls alike, getting back home is going to be harder than they thought.
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
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Author : Emil Ferris
language : en
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Release Date : 2017-02-15
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters written by Emil Ferris and has been published by Fantagraphics Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-15 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
Talent Is Overrated
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Author : Geoff Colvin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-10-16
Talent Is Overrated written by Geoff Colvin and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-16 with Business & Economics categories.
Expanding on a landmark cover story in Fortune, a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance. One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called What It Takes to Be Great. Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field--from Tiger Woods and Winston Churchill to Warren Buffett and Jack Welch--are not determined by their inborn talents. Greatness doesn't come from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades. And not just plain old hard work, like your grandmother might have advocated, but a very specific kind of work. The key is how you practice, how you analyze the results of your progress and learn from your mistakes, that enables you to achieve greatness. Now Colvin has expanded his article with much more scientific background and real-world examples. He shows that the skills of business, negotiating deals, evaluating financial statements, and all the rest obey the principles that lead to greatness, so that anyone can get better at them with the right kind of effort. Even the hardest decisions and interactions can be systematically improved. This new mind-set, combined with Colvin's practical advice, will change the way you think about your job and career and will inspire you to achieve more in all you do.
The Unconsoled
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Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-09-05
The Unconsoled written by Kazuo Ishiguro and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-05 with Fiction categories.
From the universally acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day comes a mesmerizing novel of completely unexpected mood and matter--a seamless, fictional universe, both wholly unrecognizable and familiar. When the public, day-to-day reality of a renowned pianist takes on a life of its own, he finds himself traversing landscapes that are by turns eerie, comical, and strangely malleable.