You’ve put our Jaime Hernandez signing in your diary, right? It’s a week from tomorrow. 29th of May. I’ll remind you next week but by that point you might have agreed to do something else that’s hard to weasel out of. Do it now. Diary. Now.
I will begin this week’s missive with a fun tip: don’t Google-image search “Gengorah Tagame” on your work computer. Don’t do it, hypothetically, at the till in front of an entire shop. It’s a bit late to find out he’s the master of gay erotic manga by that point. A bit late. It’s rude. Rude in the Tom of Finland sense of the word. But (and the fact that I had to google him basically proves this) his comics are massively overlooked outside of Japan which is why PictureBox have gone and rounded up a bunch for a book called The Passion of Gengorah Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga, the first collection of his work in English. In this volume you’ll find ten short stories dating from the late ’90s right up to last year, plus a new one commissioned by Chip Kidd who designed the book (interview here) and wrote an essay for it too. Edmund White provides the intro. PictureBox have a preview.
