English releases on file: Apr 14, 2009.
A Drifting Life
1 volume
Spanning fifteen years from August of 1945 to June of 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, manga artist Osamu Tezuka - with whom Tatsumi eventually became peers and, at times, stylistic rivals.
- Volumes
- 1 in the canonical sequence
- English packaging
- 1 book, 1 release
- Publishers
- Drawn & Quarterly
- Also known as
- Gekiga Hyōryū, 劇画漂流
Reading path
Drawn & Quarterly · 1 book in reading order
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