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DRIFTING LIFE TP
(W) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI (A) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI (C) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI
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StockID: 160068 SKU: 0825DQ0574
The award-winning memoir translated by Taro Nettleton with a new design by Adrian Tomine In this memoir that won two Eisner Awards- the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize- a prize at the Festival de la BD d'Angoulême- legendary manga-ka Yoshihiro Tatsumi uses his lifelong obsession with comics as a framework to tell his life story incisively and unflinchingly. He deftly weaves a complex story that encompasses Japanese culture and history- family dynamics- first love- the intricacies of the manga industry- and most importantly- what it means to be an artist. Alternately humorous- enlightening- and haunting- A Drifting Life is the masterful summation of a fascinating life and a historic career. Over sixty years ago- Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty- dark- literary stories about the private lives of everyday people- a genre he coined “gekiga.” A Drifting Life is Tatsumi’s most ambitious- personal- and heart-felt work and considered to be one of the defining autobiographical works of the comics medium.
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DRIFTING LIFE TP
(W) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI (A) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI (C) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI
DRAWN & QUARTERLY
StockID: 160068 SKU: 0825DQ0574
The award-winning memoir translated by Taro Nettleton with a new design by Adrian Tomine In this memoir that won two Eisner Awards- the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize- a prize at the Festival de la BD d'Angoulême- legendary manga-ka Yoshihiro Tatsumi uses his lifelong obsession with comics as a framework to tell his life story incisively and unflinchingly. He deftly weaves a complex story that encompasses Japanese culture and history- family dynamics- first love- the intricacies of the manga industry- and most importantly- what it means to be an artist. Alternately humorous- enlightening- and haunting- A Drifting Life is the masterful summation of a fascinating life and a historic career. Over sixty years ago- Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty- dark- literary stories about the private lives of everyday people- a genre he coined “gekiga.” A Drifting Life is Tatsumi’s most ambitious- personal- and heart-felt work and considered to be one of the defining autobiographical works of the comics medium.
