A Drifting Life
Other titles · Gekiga Hyouryuu • 劇画漂流
- Also known as
- Gekiga Hyouryuu
- Also known as
- 劇画漂流
- Also known as
- Vida à Deriva
- Also known as
- Una Vita Tra I Margini
- Also known as
- Une vie dans les marges
- Also known as
- Una vida errante
- Also known as
- Życie
- Also known as
- Gegen den Strom - Eine Autobiografie in Bildern
by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
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Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called "the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics" and has influenced generations of cartoonists around the world. Now the visionary creator of "The Push Man and Other Stories" and "Good-bye" has turned his incisive, unflinching gaze upon himself. Over ten years in the making, "A Drifting Life" is Tatsumis' most ambitious, personal, and heart felt work: an autobiographical bildungsroman in comics form. Using his life long obsession with comics as a frame work, Tatsumi weaves a complex story that encompasses family dynamics, Japanese culture and history, first love, the intricacies of the manga industry, and most importantly, what it means to be an artist. Alternately humorous, enlightening, and haunting, this is the masterful summartion of a fascinating life and a historic career. (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)