Mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s newly published 800-page autobiographical manga, A Drifting Life, resembles less the comics memoir of a fellow auteur like Harvey Pekar, and more the Homeric legends of ...

In the 1950s, while the North American comic scene was still dominated by the youthful appeal of Superman, Barney Google and The Katzenjammer Kids, a Japanese manga artist named Yoshihiro Tatsumi ...

Tatsumi revolutionized manga in the 1950s, inventing gekiga—seething, slice-of-life stories about emotional crises. In this elephantine memoir (in which he barely disguises himself as “Hiroshi Katsumi ...

Here’s the intriguing trailer for a new animated documentary celebrating the life of Japanese comic artist, Yoshihiro Tatsumi. A disciple of Osamu Tezuka, Tatsumi established an alternative style of ...

The news came through to me in a short email yesterday, March 7th 2015: "Sensei passed away today." Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the 'sensei' or grand master of 'gekiga', a term he coined for the darker, more ...