![]() ![]() It’s also a history of Japan in that era, filtered through Tatsumi’s own experience-the sound of cicadas is a recurring symbol of portentousness-and packed with digressions on cartooning technique, the movies and prose fiction that inspired him, and his nervous flirtations with women the passage of time is marked by illustrated factoids about each year’s headlines. In this elephantine memoir (in which he barely disguises himself as “Hiroshi Katsumi”), he tells the story of his early years in the comics business, from his teenage obsession with entering postwar magazines’ reader-cartoon contests and poring over Osamu Tezuka’s comics to the brief late-’50s heyday of the gekiga workshop over which he presided. Tatsumi revolutionized manga in the 1950s, inventing gekiga-seething, slice-of-life stories about emotional crises. ![]()
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