When Deena Mohamed was 18
and an welcoming new perspective for those who don’t have kids
a ghastlylooking family cat
to National Book Award–winning novelist Charles Johnson’s blistering and deeply funny gag cartoons
Drawn to one another but constantly pushed or pulled in different directions by work
Boat Life 1 Gilad Seliktar When Deena Mohamed was 18By Tsuge Tadao. Translated by Ryan Holmberg. Published by Floating World Comics. Softcover, 352 pages, B&W, 2022. Serialized between 1996 and 2000, Boat Life stars novelist Tsuda Kenta, a lightly veiled stand in for the artist, Tsuge Tadao, himself, as he pursues a life of reprieve and reverie on a small, makeshift house boat on a river outside of Tokyo. Based loosely on the artists own daily life, this charming story follows the hapless protagonist