A Drifting Life

A Drifting Life

A Drifting Life / A Drifting Life In Gekiga / Gekiga Drift / Hanyut / Una Vita tra i Margini / Une vie dans les marges / Vida à Deriva / Życie. Powieść Graficzna. (Polish) / 劇画漂流
1341538
Seinen(M),Comedy,Drama,Historical,Slice of Life,Tragedy
🇬🇧EnglishTr From🇯🇵Japanese
Publication:Completed/1995-?
< 100 votes
4 votes
5
50.0%
4
25.0%
3
00.0%
2
00.0%
1
25.0%
From Drawn & Quarterly:
Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic novel movement. A Drifting Life is his monumental memoir eleven years in the making, beginning with his experiences as a child in Osaka, growing up as part of a country burdened by the shadows of World War II.
Spanning fifteen years from August 1945 to June 1960, Tatsumi's stand-in protagonist, Hiroshi, faces his father's financial burdens and his parents' failing marriage, his jealous brother's deteriorating health, and the innumerable pitfalls that await him in the competitive manga market of mid-twentieth-century Japan. He dreams of following in the considerable footsteps of his idol, the manga artist Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Apollo's Song, Ode to Kirihito, Buddha)—with whom Tatsumi eventually became a peer and, at times, a stylistic rival. As with his short-story collection, A Drifting Life is designed by Adrian Tomine.
Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Grand Prize in 2009, the Best Reality-Based Work and the Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia for the Eisner Award in 2010.
Views
Total: 12.4K/360 days: 12.4K/180 days: 12.4K/90 days: 3.1K/30 days: 538/7 days: 113/24 hours: 26/12 hours: 17/6 hours: 3/60 minutes: 0
Readers
134 follows/31 Plan to read/5 Reading/1 Completed/2 On hold
BATO Page Creation
Agamemnon at GMT
Chapters(49)
1
328+1.8K
0
25+463
0
54+520
0
8+501
0
18+506
0
13+473
0
13+481
0
4+216
0
5+243
0
6+263
0
3+197
0
8+186
0
6+216
0
9+216
0
7+199
0
9+204
0
2+193
0
3+171
0
3+172
0
3+190
0
4+158
0
0+191
0
2+152
0
4+164
0
4+157
0
3+169
0
2+160
0
0+157
0
2+169
0
2+183
0
2+184
0
3+157
0
2+168
0
1+186
0
3+186
0
1+143
0
7+133
0
4+140
0
5+171
0
3+154
0
3+164
0
1+135
0
4+136
0
0+157
0
1+151
0
3+139
0
2+142
0
5+142
0
6+144
Reviews
Upload