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Violent, visceral and provocative, to say the least, Gengoroh Tagame's unquestionable talent for story and illustration is already the stuff of legend. His gay BDSM stories are now widely celebrated for both their virtuosic drawing and their unparalleled passion. Produced by a veteran Japanist--Anne Ishii--The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame is a project that began some years ago, when Ishii was translating Chip Kidd's personal Tagame collection and decided to reach out to him. Inspired by filmmaker Graham Kolbeins' online work with gay comics, the project took on new ambitious proportions, materializing in this exciting celebration of one of the world's most poignant erotic artists. This hefty Tagame omnibus includes ten English editions of short stories dating from the late 1990s to 2012. The newest work is an original story commissioned by Kidd himself: Tagame's very first foray into writing directly for an American reader. Celebrated novelist and biographer Edmund White contributes an introduction to the volume.
Gengoroh Tagame (born 1964) is a legend in gay comics throughout the world and in the American underground, where loyal fans have quietly shared foreign-language editions of his groundbreaking work in the outermost edges of bondage and pornography. Beyond the comic book format, Tagame's original artwork has been exhibited internationally and paired with the works of Tom of Finland. Tagame was also the founding Editor and Art Director of Japan's most widely circulated gay journal, G-Men.
- Sales Rank: #793496 in Books
- Published on: 2013-04-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .90" h x 7.10" w x 9.90" l, 1.70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
About the Author
Anne Ishii is a writer based in New York and the owner of MASSIVE Merch.
Chip Kidd is a designer/writer in New York City. His book cover designs for Alfred A. Knopf, where he has worked nonstop since 1986, have helped create a revolution in the art of American book packaging. He is the recipient of the National Design Award for Communications, as well as the Use of Photography in Design award from the International Center of Photography. Kidd has published two novels, "The Cheese Monkeys" and "The Learners", and is also the author of "Batman: Death By Design" and the coauthor and designer of "True Prep", the sequel to the beloved "Official Preppy Handbook". His 2012 TED Talk has been viewed 1.2 million times and is cited as one of the funniest of the year. He is most recently the author of the bestselling GO: A Kidd s Guide To Graphic Design".
Graham Kolbeins is a filmmaker, designer, and writer based in Los Angeles. He is also the creative director of MASSIVE, a label inspired by Japanese gay art.
Anne Ishii is a writer based in New York and the owner of MASSIVE Merch.
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31 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
THE PASSION AND THE PAIN: BDSM ELEVATED TO ART
By Allen Smalling
THE PASSION OF GENGORAH TAGAME: MASTER OF GAY EROTIC MANGA is a publishing event -- the first *bara manga* book of his stories legally translated into English for the North American market. *Bara* is a loan word derived from the English word "bear," and "bara manga" are a type of "gei comi" -- gay comics. The author, Gengoroh Tagame (b. 1964) is undoubtedly Japan's best known gay *mangaka* or gay manga artist and, per Wikipedia, has been supporting himself as such since 1994. His manga output ranges all the way from brief stories to full-fledged graphic novels. Male-on-male Japanese erotic comics are far from unknown to North American audiences, of course, but typically they're the "yaoi" boy-on-boy liaison featuring smooth, slight, almost epicene adolescents in detective or pursuit-type adventures; it's barely bromantic. "Twink" vs. "bear" in American homoeroticism does not come close to the dichotomy posed by Tagame's BDSM characters, who resemble an entirely different species from the yaoi boys: mature, hairy, hunky, tall or a bit bearish, heavily masculine or hypermasculine, and capable of great suffering as well as great physical feats; one feels that a simple lift of those massive eyebrows could clear any high school in any urban prefecture. Women and children are all but absent from Tagame's work; typically, the plot sends his men into hardcore or sadomasochistic situations in which little is left to the imagination visually or verbally: erection, penetration and orgasm are rendered in great close-up detail, as is verbal abuse, often coupled with violent and frequently unsettling scenes of physical torture, bondage, confinement and humiliation.
With such over-the-top explicitness, Tagame's work may break more "pornish" than that of his fellow gay-manga artists, but it would be unfair nonetheless to stigmatize it as the sexual ghettoization we call "pornography." Many of the best-known of the U.S. gay hardcore comics deal in the taboo theme of father-son incest; the multivolume MY WILD AND RAUNCHY SON is impressive, but all on that note. Similarly, practically all of the stories from the author known as Julius involve being bedded by Papa, symbolically if not actually. These are serial comics, not graphic novels. The artistic term "erotic," while vastly underestimating the pain and violence in Tagame's stories, at least permits some understanding that thematic complexity and character development are possible. It also carries an implicit nod at the quality of the artwork, which incorporates elements of conventional comic and graphic-novel artistry, noirish "tough guy" portrayals, and for all that an emphatic, honest quality reminiscent of Japanese woodcuts. Author/savant/esthete Edmund White, in his page-length introduction to this book, struggled mightily to parse all the influences. It's worth reading. Perhaps it's the different locus of religion in Japan, where Judaeo-Christian notions of sexual guilt do not hold sway as they do here, that makes the picturing of male orgasm not the guilty pleasure it is for us. The typical American porno "vid" (even if three vids are strung together into a mock feature-length movie) is transactional as to sex: for every Top there's a Bottom and if any "flipping" is to take place, we're usually warned of that ahead of time lest an unscheduled rupture in the homoerotics upset the paying public. (Even in the relatively hardcore machine-shop and bukkake variations the designated bottom seems all too happy to ingest whatever gets sent his way.)
[*This graf is by way of Background*: But sexuality in Tagame's work is less transactional than transformational. This comes across very clearly in his masterwork, the astonishing three-volume PRIDE (2004), at this point available in the USA only in very expensive Japanese-language imports or the Internet samizdat called "scanlation": computer-scanned piracy in which the original language is computer-whitened out and replaced by English translation of varying quality. By contemporary standards, PRIDE's protagonist ought to be the happiest homosexual in Honshu: a handsome and hunky Top's Top, a college literature student with plenty of free time and a butch bachelor pad, he inhabits a modern, Americanized conception of "gay," with all the resources of modern urban culture at hand -- personal ads, Craigslist-style online self-promotions, the local leather bar, sex club and cruisy public park, and adroit use of the telephone-answering machine to screen, sort and prioritize future bedmates. Yet the more he consumes, the less he is satiated - the more freedom he enjoys, he more restricted he feels - the more on his plate, the hungrier he gets. Redoubling his efforts only gets him soft in a hurry. One day, after class, he is summoned to the private office of a tweedy older professor from a different department, who has seen the young man in the local park. The professor turns out to be as intuitive as he is sadistic. He explains to the student in no uncertain terms that his arrogance and so-called pride are impediments to his true self. The teacher restrains the youth and chastises him verbally and physically, during which process the young man gets and stays hard (an enduring litmus test for latent Masochism), a physical fact which the teacher points out with deep and knowing satisfaction. The two begin a mentor/prot�g�e, master/slave relationship; the former young Top is on the way to becoming (as a friend says of him) "a hardcore M." The seminal (so to speak) point to be made is that even though both characters get off, the master "granting" this privilege to his slave, these are not the "money shots" of American transactional video porn that ring down the curtain . . . in PRIDE, and in most Tagame stories, the plot continues. The sex, for all its impact, is punctuation leading to character development and transformation on the part of the student. It's almost as though the Marquis de Sade's "Justine" had been rewritten for contemporary gay Japan, and like de Sade's title character each successive wave of humiliation (an assault on his Pride or her Virtue) is slightly mitigated for us (the audience) by the humor that occurs after each successive humiliation, because we know that the victim is getting just what s/he needs, despite protestations. For Tagame, fulfillment comes only from self-knowledge through hard and painful struggle.**]
It is useful to keep in mind this theme of an almost Nietzschean struggle leading to betterment through motifs of heavy kink. It is visible even in embryo in the last and shortest narrative of THE PASSION OF GENGOROH TAGAME, "Class Act," the only story specifically commissioned for this volume by editor Chip Kidd. Almost a pr�cis of the first book of the multivolume PRIDE, in "Class Act" a teacher breaks out the cane because a student's paper is a day overdue(!). Then the student -- quite disingenuously, it turns out -- e-mails the teacher an inappropriate paper to provoke another confrontation. Transformation is accompanied by mutation in this book's longest story, 2000's "Arena," in which Tagame wittily posits a future society that has gone from professional boxing to mixed-martial arts toward competitive sexuality. The protagonist is a grizzled and cynical arena fighter who, upon traveling from Japan to the USA to compete in an "ultra private" exhibition, is given an experimental vaccine (in de Sade's day, perhaps a magic amulet?) to ramp up his general machismo. It works -- on his studliness -- and he becomes a kind of overenhanced sex monster, pitted against some fearsome-looking Caucasians, one of whom is almost a caricature of Jesse Ventura. Instead of chanting "Go! Go! Go!" the spectators shout the F-word as encouragement. "Arena" is not only the longest story in the collection, it's also the most visually dense and definitely the most violent, gruesome at times, though the satirical aspect of the sci-fi takes the edge off a little. Have the sophisticated French been softened up by de Sade? "Arena" has already been legally translated into French, along with several other Tagame stories. But this is not to say that Tagame's stuff is relentlessly serious. In "Hairy Oracle," the sex is anal but the plot is mental -- a career detective, frustrated over his inability to figure out a difficult case, submits himself to the ministrations of a male prostitute and breakthroughs occur. In "Country Doctor" (which opera buffs may find reminiscent of Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES), set in a remote Japanese village, a novice physician from Tokyo gets it on with a cheerful working-class chub, then with a randy high-schooler, then with an experienced elderly patient complete with tied-up slave whom he walks in on by accident. Of this last incident, the Mayor gets a peek -- and the Mayor just happens to be the local Shinto priest. Before long an ancient ritual is unearthed and the young doctor becomes the community "bride" by joyously "marrying" a symbolic wooden phallus in full view of all the town's assembled adult males (no kids, no women, but Tagame is politically astute enough to tell us the women have their own ceremony, too). The story ends with the doctor explaining by phone to his parents that he's too busy to make it home for the holidays, while the pictorial reveals just why. In an afterword, Tagame admits that the anal initiation ritual is more his creation than precedent out of Shinto. He is quite right, though, that guilt over same-sex relations is largely a Western importation.
So would I recommend THE PASSION OF GENGOROH TAGAME? Absolutely. Act now and you can be the first kid on the block to own this breakthrough translation, and at a discount. This volume was printed in Canada and is of very good physical quality -- pretty much a B&W paperback art book of 271 pages. If I had a criticism of the product, it would not be that all the stories except one are reprints of earlier works (that's what an anthology is, after all) but that a type of "anthology-itis" creeps in nonetheless in that we are given a wide variety of stuff -- not necessarily Tagame's very best stuff (though I consider "Arena" among the best) -- instead, a mix intended to highlight the artist's versatility and fit a format. I for one wish they had included even half a chapter from a recognized longer masterwork like PRIDE, or perhaps the graphic "novellas" GUNJI or GOKU. I do hope THE PASSION OF GENGOROH TAGAME succeeds; it certainly deserves to. Then perhaps the magic of the market will start giving us further and legal translations of more Tagame work.
Fascinating factoid: In manga, sexual situations are often accompanied by this symbol: 7". No, it doesn't mean what it does here - Japan is on the metric system. Just a fun coincidence.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Gay sex with several twists
By Nicky d'
There are many Japanese gay manga artists. Until now, I've had to read them online to read any in English, and some of the translations are a little odd. Some are almost unintelligible. Takeishi Matsu is my favorite because I like romance and happy endings with my sex. You might get a little romance out of Gengoroh Tagame, you might even get an occasional happy ending (of some sort), but you sure as hell are going to get SEX. Tagame's drawings are not as finished as Matsu's but the rougher quality goes with the story lines of bondage, discipline, domination, and s&m. If you've read Tagame online and are worried that some of THOSE stories will be in the book, don't worry that your neighbors on the subway will throw you off the train. The really, really, really hardcore ones aren't in this book. But the ones that are aren't exactly vanilla. You still get the real Tagame, which is pretty damn hot. This is a larger size hardcover, which gives more room for the drawings. The English translation makes sense. Tagame writes notes about the stories and shows a delightful sense of humor. I really like Tagame's work overall, even though some of it turns me off, and I am very happy to have this book in my home library. Comics I enjoy reading over and over. I hope we see more gay manga in English. Takeishi Matsu please!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A Must Buy for Tagame Fans
By J. Dawson
A few of the stories may be familiar to followers of this artist, but this is the first time I've ever seen them translated into English so well. One story was written especially for this volume, and there are several others that were new to me.
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