A drifting life / Yoshihiro Tatsumi ; [edited, designed, and lettered by Adrian Tomine ; translated by Taro Nettleton].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935-2015

Contributor:

Tomine, Adrian, 1974-

Nettleton, Taro.

Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935-2015.

Comics Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartoonists--Japan--Comic books, strips, etc.

Cartoonists.

Cartoonists--Family relationships--Japan--Comic books, strips, etc.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Manners and customs.

Families.

Japan--Social life and customs--1945---Comic books, strips, etc.

Japan.

Comic books, strips, etc--Japan.

Genre:

Comics (Graphic works)

Fiction.

Physical Description:

855 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2009.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

First pub. under title: A drifting life in Gekiga.

Related Work:

Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935-2015. A drifting life in Gekiga.

ISBN:

9781897299746

1897299745

OCLC:

271432638