A Drifting Life

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Call Number: Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / Biography / Tatsumi, Yoshihiro
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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"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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Why are you reading this and not A Drifting Life submitted by severian on July 14, 2022, 7:34pm It's a super long autobiography / history of comic art in postwar Japan, and it's absolutely riveting. I read this from the library and then bought a copy to put on my shelf. If you're interested even remotely in the history of comics, this is up there with (and in some ways beyond) any of the classics by Scott McCloud et al. Read it!

Drift Away submitted by emwinter on August 19, 2022, 3:04pm Incredibly interesting look into postwar Japan and the life of gekiga mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi