![]() He is arguably the most influential gay manga-ka today. Tagame, who is openly gay, has a growing reputation overseas and his work has been translated into French and English. The story revolves around Yaichi and his daughter Kana, who are visited by Mike, the Canadian husband of Yaichi’s twin brother. Otouto no Otto not only raises the timely issues of gay parenting and same-sex partnerships, it also examines interracial couples too. It is currently being serialized in Gekkan Action. Clearly that also includes manga too and this new bara manga seems relatively mainstream compared to his more risque other titles. Published by Futabasha, Otouto no Otto is written by Gengoroh Tagame, whose website says he creates “gay erotic art”. Extremely explicit material so probably leave the kids at home.Contributing further to the continuing public discourse in Japan about gay rights and same-sex marriage, the first volume of Otouto no Otto (My Brother’s Husband) was published as a paperback on May 25th. Introductions by Chip Kidd and Edmund White. RSVP: edited and designed by Anne Ishii, Graham Kolbeins and Chip Kidd. If you can't make it, you can buy a copy here. There's a signing with the artist and Chip Kidd tonight (Wednesday May 15th). We can't even begin to show how shocking these comics are on this website, so you'll have to come see for yourself at The Shop at The Standard, High Line. "But there is beauty too in how all those knots are tied." "Here in Tagame's beautiful manga the bold Japanese sense of rendering is brought to bear on pictures of cruelty, pain and bondage," Edmund White explains in the introduction. Legendary for both their virtuosic drawing and unparalleled passion, these fantastical, alpha-masculine, homo-erotic, sado-masochistic manga have been compiled here for the first with English copy, designed and co-edited by Chip Kidd and published by Dan Nadel at Picturebox. A policeman oracle who sees crimes when he comes, a sadistic Prince who mutilates his body guard during sex, these are the stories of Gengoroh Tagame, without question the master of Japanese gay erotic graphic novels. ![]()
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