Format: MANGA
Chapters: 48
Volumes: 2
Status: Finished
Published from: Mar 21, 1995
Until: Dec 28, 2006
Source: Original
Average score: 78%
Mean score: 80%
Popularity: 3,843
Favorites: 127
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life
Romaji: Gekiga Hyouryuu
English: A Drifting Life
Native: 劇画漂流
Synonyms: Vida à Deriva Una Vita Tra I Margini Une vie dans les marges Una vida errante Życie Gegen den Strom - Eine Autobiografie in Bildern

A Drifting Life

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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 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 Tatsumis' most ambitious, personal, and heart felt work: an autobiographical bildungsroman in comics form. Using his life long obsession with comics as a frame work, 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 summartion of a fascinating life and a historic career.

(Source: Drawn & Quarterly)