A drifting life / Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2009.Edition: 1st ed., Apr. 2009Description: 855 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781897299746
- 1897299745
- 741.58 22 SID-B-9851
- PN6790.J33 T38 2009
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First pub. under title: A drifting life in Gekiga.
Edited, designed and lettered by Adrian Tomine--T.p. verso.
Translated by Taro Nettleton--T.p. verso.
"Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye--originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever--the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic novel movement. A Drifting Life is his monumental memoir eleven years in the making, beginning with his experiences as a child in Osaka, growing up as part of a country burdened by the shadows of World War II. Spanning fifteen years from August of 1945 to June of 1960, Tatsumi's stand-in protagonist, Hiroshi, faces his father's financial burdens and his parents' failing marriage, his jealous brother's deteriorating health, and the innumerable pitfalls that await him in the competitive manga market of mid-twentieth-century Japan. He dreams of following in the considerable footsteps of his idol, manga artist Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Apollo's Song, Ode to Kirihito, Buddha)--with whom Tatsumi eventually became peers and, at times, stylistic rivals" -- from publisher's web site.
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