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A drifting life / Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
- Title
- A drifting life / Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
- Author
- Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935-2015
- Publication
- Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2009.
- ©2009
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- Description
- 855 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- 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"--Publisher's web site.
- Alternative Title
- 辰巳ヨシヒロ
- A drifting life in Gekiga.
- Subject
- Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935-2015
- Since 1945
- Comic books, strips, etc. > Japan > Translations into English
- Cartoonists > Japan > Comic books, strips, etc
- Cartoonists > Family relationships > Japan > Comic books, strips, etc
- Cartoonists
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Manners and customs
- Tecknade serier > Japan
- Manga
- Japan > Social life and customs > 1945- > Comic books, strips, etc
- Japon > Mœurs et coutumes > 1945- > Bandes dessinées
- Japan
- Genre/Form
- Graphic novels
- Graphic Novel
- Romans graphiques
- Autobiographies.
- graphic novels.
- manga (comic books)
- Manga
- Bildungsromans
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Translations
- Romans graphiques.
- Mangas.
- Note
- First published under title: A drifting life in Gekiga.
- Edited, designed and lettered by Adrian Tomine--Title page verso.
- Translated by Taro Nettleton--Title page verso.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781897299746
- 1897299745
- OCLC
- 271432638
- SCSB-12672304
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library