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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 short stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called "the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics" and has influenced generations of cartoonists, but, until now, the majority of his works has remained unavailable outside of Japan. By turns poetic, comical, and deeply unsettling, Abandon the Old in Tokyo is a collection of unforgettable short stories from the modern master. - Drawn & Quarterly
Genre(s): Drama, Psychological, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: Nov 29, 2019
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Genre(s): Thriller, Animals, Crime, Sexual Violence, Gore, Drama, Police, Tragedy
Updated Time: Apr 30, 2024
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Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi\'s remarkable first full-length tankobon and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Tatsumi explores the dark underbelly of his working-class heroes that five decades later will make him one of the most well known Japanese cartoonists in North America. Susumu Yamaji, a 24-year-old pianist, is arrested for murder and ends up handcuffed to a career criminal on the train that will take them to prison. An avalanche derails the train and the criminal takes the opportunity to escape, dragging a reluctant Susumu with him into the blizzard raging outside. They flee into the mountains to an abandoned ranger station, where they take shelter from the storm. As they sit around the fire they built, Susumu relates how love drove him to become a murderer.
Genre(s): Thriller, Action, Psychological, Romance, Crime, Survival, Mafia, Adventure, Office workers, Philosophical, Drama, Police, Mystery, Tragedy
Updated Time: Dec 13, 2022
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*Currently Out-of-Print with no digital edition from Drawn & Quarterly* In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted from the Edo-era Japanese storytelling form. As Tatsumi notes in the afterword, the world of rakugo, filled with mystery, emotion, revenge, hope, and, of course, love, overlaps perfectly with the world of Gekiga that he has spent the better part of his life developing. These slice-of-life stories resonate with modern readers thanks to their comedic elements and familiarity with human idiosyncrasies. In one, a father finds his son too bookish and arranges for two workers to take the young man to a brothel on the pretext of visiting a new shrine. In another particularly beloved rakugo tale, a married man falls in love with a prostitute. When his wife finds out, she is enraged and sets a curse on the other woman. The prostitute responds by cursing the wife, and the two escalate in a spiral of voodoo doll cursing. Soon both are dead, but even death can’t extinguish their jealousy. Tatsumi’s love of wordplay shines through in the telling of these whimsical stories, and yet he still offers timeless insight into human nature.
Genre(s): Historical, Psychological, Ninja, Comedy, Anthology, Samurai, Adventure, Military, Philosophical, Drama, Slice Of Life, Supernatural, Mystery, Tragedy
Updated Time: Jan 29, 2023
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A boy abandoned at birth and raised by rats, with the mysterious power to control them, grows up seeing the dark side of the humans that rejected him and vows to become humanity’s greatest enemy.
Genre(s): Horror, Supernatural, Psychological, Sci-fi, Seinen, Tragedy, Mature
Updated Time: Feb 22, 2024
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Midnight Fishermen: Gekiga of the 1970's
From the mangaka who told his life story in A Drifting Life, and gave you Abandon the Old in Tokyo and The Push Man and Other Stories, comes this collection of gekiga of the 1970s which have never before been translated into English.
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Updated Time: Mar 29, 2024
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