GOOD BYE TP
(W) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI (A) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI (CA) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI
Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI's vocabulary for characters contextualized by themes of depravity and disorientation in twentieth-century Japan. Some of the tales focus on the devastation the country felt as a result of World War II: in one story a man devotes twenty years to preserving the memory of those killed at Hiroshima, only to discover a horrible misconception at the heart of his tribute. Tatsumi's characters muddle through isolated despair and fleeting pleasure to live out their darkly nuanced lives.
PUSH MAN AND OTHER STORIES TP
(W) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI (A) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI (CA) YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI
Thirty years before the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States, YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI created a library of comics that draws parallels to modern prose fiction and today's alternative comics. The stories collected in The Push Man are simultaneously haunting, disturbing, and darkly humorous. A lone man travels the country, projecting pornographic films for private individuals while attempting to maintain a normal home life. An auto mechanic's obsession with a female TV personality turns fatal after a chance meeting between the two.