Yoshihiro Tatsumi
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辰巳 ヨシヒロ
Tatsumi in 2010
(1935-06-10)June 10, 1935
Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan
March 7, 2015(2015-03-07) (aged 79)
Area(s)
Writer, Penciller, Inker
A Drifting Life
Yoshihiro Tatsumi(辰巳 ヨシヒロ,Tatsumi Yoshihiro, June 10, 1935 – March 7, 2015) was a Japanese manga artist who is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative comics in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957. [1]
Mangaka (漫画家) is the Japanese word for manga artist. Outside Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book, and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese. As of 2006, about 3000 professional mangaka were working in Japan.
Gekiga (劇画) is a Japanese term for comics that literally means "dramatic pictures". It describes comics aimed at adult audiences with a cinematic style and more mature themes. The name gekiga was coined in 1957 by Yoshihiro Tatsumi and adopted by other more serious Japanese cartoonists, who did not want their trade to be known by the more common term manga or "whimsical pictures". It is akin to English speakers who prefer the term "graphic novel", as opposed to "comic book".
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His work has been translated into many languages, and Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly took part in a project to publish an annual compendium of his works focusing each on the highlights of one year of his work (beginning with 1969) that produced three volumes, edited by American cartoonist Adrian Tomine. According to Tomine, this is one event in a seemingly coincidental rise to worldwide popularity along with: reissued collections of his stories in Japan, acquisition of translation rights in a number of European countries, and competition for the rights for Drawn and Quarterly. [2] Tatsumi received the Japan Cartoonists Association Award in 1972. In 2009, he was awarded the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for his autobiography, A Drifting Life . The same work garnered him multiple Eisner awards (Best Reality-Based Work and Best U.S. Edition of International Material–Asia) in 2010 and the regards sur le monde award in Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2012. His work frequently illustrates the darker elements of life.
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Adrian Tomine, a popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his illustrations in The New Yorker.
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A full-length animated feature on the life and short stories of Yoshihiro Tatsumi was released in 2011. The film, Tatsumi , is directed by Eric Khoo and The Match Factory is handling world sales. [3] Tatsumi died of cancer at the age of 79 on March 7, 2015. [4] [5]
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Tatsumi is a 2011 Japanese-language Singaporean animated drama film directed by Eric Khoo. It is based on the manga memoir A Drifting Life and five earlier short stories by the Japanese manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. The film is a Singaporean production with Japanese dialogue, and was animated in Indonesia.
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Midnight Fishermen – (Landmark Books, 2013) ISBN 9789814189385
Fallen Words – (Drawn & Quarterly, 2012) ISBN 9781770460744
"Love's Bride" in the anthology AX: alternative manga , edited by Sean Michael Wilson (Top Shelf Productions, 2010)
Black Blizzard – (Drawn & Quarterly, 2010)
A Drifting Life – (Drawn & Quarterly, 2009)
Good-Bye – (Drawn & Quarterly, 2008) ISBN 978-1-897299-37-1
Abandon the Old in Tokyo – (Drawn and Quarterly, 2006) ISBN 978-1-894937-87-0
The Push Man and other stories – (Drawn and Quarterly, 2005)
Good-Bye and other stories – (Catalan Communications, 1988) ISBN 978-0-87416-056-7
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Fallen Words is a collection of rakugo short stories by manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. The manga was published on July 3, 2009 by Basilico, with Drawn and Quarterly publishing it in North American on May 8, 2012.
Geliebter Affe und andere Offenbarungen, Carlsen Comics 2013, 978-3-551-72326-0
Tsuru shobō, (Children's Island), 1954 [6]
Thirteen Eyes (Hinomaru bunko, 1954)
Hinomaru bunko (The Man who Laughs in the Darkness), 1955
The People of the Valley Inn, in Shadow, no. 2 (1956)
It Happened One Night, Shadow, no. 4 (July 1956).
Nakamura shoten, (A Handshake in the Graveyard, in Secret Room, no. 1) , 1960-61
Dynamic Action, 1961 published by Sanyōsha
Tatsumi Yoshihiro Action, 1961 published by Sanyōsha
The Graveyard of the Sea, Gekiga Magazine, no. 1 (Satō Pro, 1963)
Gekiga College (Hiro shobō, 1968), a manifesto
Hitogui zakana (Man-Eating Fish), (Napoleon Books, 1970).
Hitokuigyo, (1973) OCLC 673412591
Turkish Bath Bastard (Geibunsha, 1978)
The Army of Hell (Jigoku no gundan, 1982-83)
Shoot the Sun (Taiyō o ute, early-mid '80s)
Gekiga Living (Gekiga kurashi, 2010), prose
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↑ Garner, Dwight (April 14, 2009), "Manifesto of a Comic-Book Rebel", The New York Times
↑ Tatsumi, Yoshihiro (April 10, 2012). The Push Man and Other Stories. Introduction: Drawn and Quarterly. ISBN 978-1770460768.
↑ Frater, Patrick (2011-02-07). "Tatsumi finds match with Factory". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 2011-05-09. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
↑ Johnson, Rich (8 March 2015). "Yoshihiro Tatsumi Passes Away, Aged 79". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
↑ Weber, Bruce (13 March 2015). "Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Formative Manga Artist, Dies at 79". New York Times. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
↑ http://www.tcj.com/tatsumi-yoshihiro-1935-2015/
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Good-Bye is a collection of gekiga short stories by manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. It collects nine stories by Tatsumi from 1971 to 1972. Drawn and Quarterly published the manga in North America on June 1, 2008, with Adrian Tomine as editor and designer. The manga was nominated for the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books.
Black Blizzard is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Tatsumi and published by Hinomaru Bunko in November 1956. It is about two convicts who are handcuffed together and escape after the train they are being escorted on crashes. Written by Tatsumi in twenty days, it is considered to be one of the first full-length gekiga works. Manga scholar Ryan Holmberg has called it an unsolicited adaptation of Kazuo Shimada's "Black Rainbow". It was published in North America by Drawn and Quarterly on April 13, 2010.
Yoshihiro Tatsumi at the Grand Comics Database
Yoshihiro Tatsumi at the Comic Book DB
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Works by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Black Blizzard (1956)
The Push Man and Other Stories (1969)
Abandon the Old in Tokyo (1970)
Good-Bye (1971–1972)
A Drifting Life (2008)
Fallen Words (2009)
Midnight Fishermen (2013)
Drawn and Quarterly
Kate Beaton
Julie Doucet
Debbie Drechsler
Kevin Huizenga
Dylan Horrocks
Jason Lutes
Anders Nilsen
Adrian Tomine
Guy Delisle
Dupuy and Berberian
Seiichi Hayashi
Tove Jansson/Lars Jansson
Susumu Katsumata
Shigeru Mizuki
Rutu Modan
Michel Rabagliati
Tadao Tsuge
Dirty Plotte
Ed the Happy Clown
Palooka-Ville
Yummy Fur
Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
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