A drifting life

Sachbuch

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• KB.Q : Bildende Kunst : Biographisches
• KB.CC : Bildende Kunst : Theorie und Geschichte von Grafik, Zeichnung, Comic und Druckgrafik : Comics für Erwachsene

Verfasser:
Tatsumi, Yoshihiro

Verfasser Angabe:
Yoshihiro Tatsumi. [Translated by Taro Nettleton]

Personen:
Nettleton, Taro [Übers.]

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Japan
• Manga
• Graphic Novel
• Autobiographie
• Comic

Verlag:
Drawn and Quarterly

Erscheinungsort:
Montreal

Jahr:
2011

Umfang:
855 S. : überw. Ill.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-1-89729-974-6

Interessenskreise:
Comic

Inhalt:
An epic memoir from a manga master. 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 Tatsumi's most ambitious, personal, and heart-felt work: an autobiographical bildungsroman in comics form. Using his life-long obsession with comics as a framework, 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 summation of a fascinating life and a historic career.