Artforum, October 1st, 2005
THE PUSH MAN AND OTHER STORIES BY YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI MONTREAL: DRAWN & QUARTERLY. 224 PAGES. $20.
In 1969, some thirty-five years before today's graphic novel craze, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, dubbed the "grandfather of Japanese alternative comics," created the narratives now gathered in The Push Man and Other Stories. This collection of sixteen short graphic works, most no more than eight pages in length, marks the first in a series that Canadian comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly plans as a translated library of Tatsumi's large body of work. Given that American interest in Japanese pop cultu...
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