A Drifting Life just arrived
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█ Today I just got my copy of A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. At 856 pages, it is a HUGE manga volume. I mean, you can use this book to beat someone with it. Or to slap it with SOME culture if you want. And do not drop it on your feet. It will hurt. And don’t even try to sleep with it under your pillow, if you are fond of evening reading.
I ordered my copy from a1books.com, and I got it after 3 weeks or so, with a dent on a corner, which can be said that is the trademark of this seller (as the Savage Sword of Conan volume that i got from them had the same mark). But again, they have very good prices.
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To my surprise, this book is not printed like a traditional manga volume, so it wont be read starting with the back of the book. I’ve been craving to read this volume since it appeared in some reviews from the internet, everybody praising it. Damn, this book looks so fascinating. I will be sure to come back with a review after I finish reading it. So I will end this first view with the description that is on the back of the book.
“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 Other Stories and Good-Bye has turned his incisive, unflinching gaze upon himself. Over ten years in the making, A Drifting Life is Tatsumi’s most ambitious, personal, and heart-felt work: an autobiographical bildungsroman in comics form, a massive 840 page book edited and designed by Adrian Tomine. Using his life-long obsession with comics as a framework, 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 summation of a fascinating life and an historic career”
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