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 ...

This article was published more than 12 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. As an introduction to the work of one of Japan's most bravely groundbreaking pop-cultural figures, Tatsumi ...

Tatsumi is an animated biography of Japanese manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, based on his humongous book, A Drifting Life, a book published by Montreal’s very own Drawn & Quarterly. (At 855 pages, ...

The death earlier this month of Japanese manga artist and storyteller Yoshihiro Tatsumi will perhaps be felt most keenly in Singapore by film-maker Eric Khoo. Three years ago, Khoo, 48, wrote and ...

Yoshihiro Tatsumi altered the aesthetic of the wildly popular medium — and with it, that of Japanese pop culture You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an ...

Manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has always enjoyed a certain level of fame in his home country, where he's known as the originator of gekiga, a hard-boiled style of manga from the 1960s-'70s. Overseas, ...

Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a manga artist who became internationally recognized for his graphically illustrated adult comics, died of cancer in Tokyo on March 7. He was 79. Tatsumi dubbed this manga subgenre ...

Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a Japanese cartoonist who expanded the boundaries of graphic storytelling with gritty tales rooted in the frustrations and disappointments of ordinary people in post-World War II ...