The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga Vol. 1 [Paperback]

Here in Gengoroh Tagames beautiful manga, the delicate original and bold Japanese sense of rendering is brought to bear on pictures of cruelty, pain, and bondage. But there is beauty too in how all those knots are tied.  Edmund White, from the introductionA classic comics collection from The Tom of Finland of Japan, now in paperback! Pitch perfect&.A carnal explosion&.Tagames art ultimately surpasses genre. [Tagame] demonstrates the ways in which sex and sexuality touch every aspect of our lives, and the way those things are, in turn, touched by other aspects of life. A formidable book: visually powerful, directly engaging and stuffed with forcefully-told stories. Mishima meets Mapplethorpe&.meticulously drawn.