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Personal Author:
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Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935-
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Title:
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A drifting life / Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
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Edition:
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1st ed., Apr. 2009.
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Publication Information:
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Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2009.
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Physical Description:
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855 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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General Note:
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First pub. under title: A drifting life in Gekiga.
Edited, designed and lettered by Adrian Tomine--T.p. verso.
Translated by Taro Nettleton--T.p. verso.
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Summary:
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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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Subject Term:
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Graphic novels.
Cartoonists--Japan--Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists--Family relationships--Japan--Comic books, strips, etc.
Japan--Social life and customs--1945---Comic books, strips, etc.
Comic books, strips, etc.--Japan--Translations into English.
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Geographic Term:
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Japan Social life and customs 1945- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Added Author:
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Tomine, Adrian, 1974-
Nettleton, Taro.
Tatsumi, Yoshihiro, 1935- A drifting life in Gekiga.
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