Target: Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life. Translated by Taro Nettleton. English design and lettering by Adrian Tomine. Profile: Autobiography, Manga, Graphic Novel A Drifting Life is a wonderfully thick tome of a graphic novel. Equal parts autobiography, national history and understated drama; the book chronicles the story of one of the founding fathers of Japanese Manga. The style pioneered by Yoshihiro Tatsumi was one of the first attempts to turn cartoons into a medium for serious works. Appropriately, his story is a serious one, touching on the themes […]
You Filthy Cockaroaches
I have never met Yu Sasuga. I have never read an interview with Yu Sasuga. I do not presume any knowledge about Yu Sasuga. And so, I will not accuse Yu Sasuga of being a racist. In fact, it’s pretty difficult to levy a strong complaint against Terra Formars as being a racist work. I may be a little bit racist (maybe it’s a fact we all should face) in saying that there has, however, been a certain level of tone-deafness that arises in Japanese pop […]
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