PAST EVENT
NJCU Presents Manga and War Exhibit, featuring Mizuki & Tatsumi!
Gallery Show
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 to Friday, March 3, 2017
04:30pm
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Born in Osaka, Japan, Yoshihiro Tatsumi (1935-2015) began writing and drawing comics as a young teenager with comics in national manga magazines and regional children’s newspapers. He continued drawing comics for the rental market for kids comics in Japan, and eventually his tastes matured and he sought to make comics for a sophisticated adult readership in a realistic style he called "Gekiga." He was known as “the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics” and influenced generations of cartoonists around the world. His achievements to the industry also include helping to form the short lived but influential Gekiga Studio, an artist-run publishing collective as well as his own publishing house Dai’ichi Pro. For many years while he drew comics, he ran a used manga bookstore with his wife in Jinbochō, a neighborhood in Tokyo often referred to as “Book Town.”
PAST EVENT
TATSUMI & TOMINE in CALIFORNIA! 7/19-7/23!
Appearance
Thursday, July 19, 2007 to Saturday, July 21, 2007
07:00pm
June 25, 2021
“Taut and cinematic”: Abandon the Old in Tokyo and Good-Bye
I never knew comics could attain the power of great literature until I came upon the work of Yoshihiro Tatsumi. The Jap...
February 3, 2020
The Japan Times Recognizes Yoshiharu Tsuge’s Exhibition at Angouleme
Japanese manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge was honored at the Angouleme International Comics Festival in France on Saturday. ...
February 5, 2019
A Drifting Life Recommended by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2019 List
A DRIFTING LIFE BY YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI
A peer of Osamu Tezuka, Yoshihiro Tatsumi is a manga creator known for his rev...
August 10, 2016
D+Q titles on PRI’s list of Best Nonfiction Comics
Comic books bridge continents.
Superman spinoffs are a hit in China; Japanese manga trickled into American culture th...
December 31, 2015
ComicsAlliance Remembers Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Shigeru Mizuki
Yoshihiro Tatsumi passed away on March 17, 2015. He is best known in the U. S. for A Drifting Life, published by Drawn...
November 27, 2015
Unshelved Fallen Words Review
Yoshihiro Tatsumi shows his skills as a storyteller with this collection of eight moral comedies. Each of the stor...
March 23, 2015
The Guardian remembers Tatsumi
Years ago, as a naive 21-year-old stacking shelves in a branch of a now-defunct chain of bookshops, I was drawn to the h...
March 18, 2015
Japan Times remembers Tatsumi
Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a manga artist who became internationally recognized for his graphically illustrated adult c...
Yoshihiro Tatsumi & the Creation of Gekiga
Gekiga (manga for adult readers) pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi (A Drifting Life), famous for his realistic, dark short stories, tells us about…
Tatsumi in conversation with Tomine
Over 40 years ago Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons for storytelling in comics by using the visual language of manga to…
For Your Consideration: D&Q’s Year in Review 2025
2025 was a big year for D&Q–not that it’s over yet, but you can hardly take us to task for reminding…
D&Q debuts Fall books at SPX
Drawn & Quarterly returns to the Small Press Expo (SPX) from Saturday, September 13 to Sunday, September 14 at Tables W1-5.…