Yoshihiro Tatsumi was born in Osaka, Japan in 1935.
He writes and draws comics for a sophisticated adult readership in a realistic style he calls Gekiga, the history of which is detailed in his new memoir, A Drifting Life.
For more than 40 years, 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 was not published in North America until 2005, when Drawn & Quarterly published the first of his critically acclaimed three-volume short story series, comprised of The Push Man, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good Bye, edited and designed by Adrian Tomine.
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