So, it looks like I’m a lone wolf on this one. My shop won’t get it until next week, but it looks awesome. Since there is no description, or publisher listing, check it out:
Black Blizzard
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Drawn & Quarterly
Spring 2010
Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of gekiga, Tatsumi documented this landmark genre of manga, and the creation of this graphic novel in his epic critically acclaimed 2009 autobiography A DRIFTING LIFE. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Yoshihiro Tatsumi returns to the dark underbelly of his working class heroes that made me him one of the most well known Japanese cartoonists in North America.
Susumu Yamaji, a 24-year-old pianist, is arrested for murder and ends up handcuffed to a career criminal on the train that will take them to prison. An avalanche derails the train and the criminal takes the opportunity to escape, dragging a reluctant Susumu with him into the blizzard raging outside. They flee into the mountains to an abandoned ranger station where they take shelter from the storm. As they sit around the fire they built, Susumu relates how love drove him to become a murderer. A cinematic adventure story, BLACK BLIZZARD uncovers an unlikely love story and an even unlikelier friendship.
Full-Color and Black and White, 144 pages, 6 1/4 by 8 1/2 inches
I’m getting it too. After reading A Drifting Life late last year, I quickly worked my way through the three short story collections that D&Q put out over the past couple of years. Tatsumi is a genius, I hope they keep putting out more of his work in english.
I think I’ll work backwards, as I have not read any Tatsumi, Black Blizzard appeals to me the most, then A Drifting Life. Even if there is only a limited amount of work from him, there’s always Tezuka.
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So, it looks like I’m a lone wolf on this one. My shop won’t get it until next week, but it looks awesome. Since there is no description, or publisher listing, check it out:
Black Blizzard
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Drawn & Quarterly
Spring 2010
Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of gekiga, Tatsumi documented this landmark genre of manga, and the creation of this graphic novel in his epic critically acclaimed 2009 autobiography A DRIFTING LIFE. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Yoshihiro Tatsumi returns to the dark underbelly of his working class heroes that made me him one of the most well known Japanese cartoonists in North America.
Susumu Yamaji, a 24-year-old pianist, is arrested for murder and ends up handcuffed to a career criminal on the train that will take them to prison. An avalanche derails the train and the criminal takes the opportunity to escape, dragging a reluctant Susumu with him into the blizzard raging outside. They flee into the mountains to an abandoned ranger station where they take shelter from the storm. As they sit around the fire they built, Susumu relates how love drove him to become a murderer. A cinematic adventure story, BLACK BLIZZARD uncovers an unlikely love story and an even unlikelier friendship.
Full-Color and Black and White, 144 pages, 6 1/4 by 8 1/2 inches
I’m getting it too. After reading A Drifting Life late last year, I quickly worked my way through the three short story collections that D&Q put out over the past couple of years. Tatsumi is a genius, I hope they keep putting out more of his work in english.
I think I’ll work backwards, as I have not read any Tatsumi, Black Blizzard appeals to me the most, then A Drifting Life. Even if there is only a limited amount of work from him, there’s always Tezuka.