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Upon graduating Tama Art University, he took jobs as an Art Director, debuting as a gay erotic artist in 1986 with manga, illustratraions and prose fiction for a variety of magazines. Gengoroh Tagame has achieved something extraordinary here, in his beautifully-drawn story of not only a very modern family, but an international one too.вЂќ -Designer/Editor Chip KiddД«orn in 1964. вЂњI think вЂMy BrotherвЂ™s HusbandвЂ™ will be one of the most important works of manga to be published in the last ten years-it opens the door on what it means to be LGBT in Japan today, the considerable challenges that community still faces, and how it relates to the strides of acceptance that have been made in the West. As Mike gets accustomed to Japanese morays and the surprising idiosyncrasies of living with Yaichi and his daughter Kana, the sleepy Japanese suburb also learns the true meaning of family. My BrotherвЂ™s Husband is a family drama that begins with the auspicious arrival of Mike, a Canadian who has come to pay respects to the family of his recently deceased Japanese husband Ryoji, whose only remaining immediate family member is Yaichi-an identical twin brother. Unlike the original or current foreign editions, the English edition will be formatted as a two volume omnibus.

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The first collected book of the series (Chapters 1-7) is in at least its fifth printing and has since launch, been translated into Korean and French. Currently approaching its 16th installment, the monthly series has been one of publisher FutabashaвЂ™s bestselling series. The series вЂњMy BrotherвЂ™s HusbandвЂќ debuted in Gekkan Action Zasshi (Monthly Action Magazine) in November of 2014 in Japan to monumental critical acclaim and commercial success. In a heteronormative mainstream comics culture that has never seen an explicitly gay main character in a popular series, My BrotherвЂ™s Husband has been a watershed publishing event: not only is this the first openly out gay artist to be commended by a government council, TagameвЂ™s bestselling work has now been featured on the front cover of the popular young adult magazine in which it serializesвЂ¦twice.

My BrotherвЂ™s Husband is the hit Japanese manga series, awarded by the countryвЂ™s own Media Arts Council for Excellence in Manga, celebrating an unapologetic approach to queer social themes and issues. (New York)-Pantheon (Knopf/Penguin Random House) announces plans to publish the English edition of internationally acclaimed gay erotica artist and icon Gengoroh TagameвЂ™s first general audience comic book series, My BrotherвЂ™s Husband, in a two-volume omnibus edition.