In 2009, I came upon the three volumes of stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi–and felt that Misra was a Bengali Tatsumi in words, or that Tatsumi was the Japanese Misra in visual storytelling–their ...

Yoshihiro Tatsumi delves into the often illicit urban underworld of 1960s Tokyo in this selection of gekiga short stories by the celebrated manga artist.

Yoshihiro Tatsumi points to the second-floor window of his house where he and neighbors entered and exited to rescue his younger brother Michitoshi, in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 18, 2024.

There will be an online panel discussion with Khoo, Tatsumi sound director Kazz Sato, animation director Phil Mitchell, music composer Christine Sham and others (Nov 27, 3pm, All-Access Pass required) ...

Within the Qing (1644-1911) imperial court, a unique collection of paintings can be identified, which were created by European missionaries serving at the imperial court.

In the 1960s, Yoshihiro Tatsumi coined the term gekiga, referring to an alternative style of manga that reflects the darker moments of life. His gekiga works from the 1960s and 1970s have been ...

Special appearances: Woofy in a cameo in 'Tatsumi', Khoo's 2011 animated biopic of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, the godfather of alternative manga. The Brown Dog, which Khoo co-helmed with Andre Quek and ...

This was Gekiga, coined by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, who is also referred to as the father of that school. Made up of two separate words geki and ga, it literally means “dramatic pictures” in Japanese.

Besides Tintin, Rajendran is particularly inclined towards Soviet children’s literature, graphic novels (Yoshihiro Tatsumi, above all), science fiction and “books that startle me with their ...

The Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi I’m fascinated by postwar Japan. Tatsumi’s subjects are working-class, lonely men and women, struggling to find a foothold in a rapidly ...