![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The stories were originally published in a bi-weekly magazine called Gekiga-Young, a minor young men’s magazine with limited print runs. It contains slice-of-life portrait of grim life of Japanese working class (or what they literally call “salary-man”). So Push Man and Other Stories is Tatsumi’s best-of collection from 1969. Our hope is to release one volume per year, each focusing on a single year in Mr. Tatsumi’s request, with the year of 1969. So this will be a selective survey of his best work, beginning, at Mr. Tatsumi has produced a mind-bogglingly immense body of work. With a career spanning from the 1950s to the present day, and with a work ethic that yielded up to twelve pages in a week (and, with the help of assistants, fifty pages in one night!), Mr. “As plans for this translation project began to get off the ground, it soon became apparent that a comprehensive reprinting of Tatsumi’s work would be literally impossible. In 1957, he coined the term gekiga to differentiate the gritty, naturalistic style of cartooning he helped pioneer from that of the more commercial, youth-oriented manga. Yoshihiro Tatsumi is known as “the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics”. The book is designed and edited by Adrian Tomine (whose Shortcomings I have yet to read), and includes Tomine’s introduction. I was intrigued when I saw this copy at Sydney Japanese Foundation Library. This must be the bleakest graphic novel/manga I have ever read. ![]()
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