THE PREEMMINENT GEKIGA-KA'S FIRST GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM FIFTY YEARS AGO Created in the late 1950s, Black Blizzard is Yoshihiro Tatsumi's remarkable first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. Tatsumi documented how his love for Mickey Spillane and hard-boiled crime novels led him to create this landmark genre of manga in his epic, critically acclaimed 2009 autobiography, A Drifting Life. With Black Blizzard, Tatsumi explores the dark underbelly of his working-class heroes that five decades later has made him one of the best-known Japanese cartoonists in North America. Susumu Yamaji, a twenty-four-year-old pianist, is arrested formurder and ends up handcuffed to a career criminal on the train that will take them to prison. An avalanche derails the train and the criminal takes the opportunity to escape, dragging a reluctant Susumu with him into the blizzard raging outside. They flee into the mountains to an abandoned ranger station, where they take shelter from the storm. As they sit around the fire they built, Susumu relates how love drove him to become a murderer. A cinematic adventure story, Black Blizzard uncovers an unlikely love story and an even unlikelier friendship.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Drawn AND Quarterly
ISBN-13
9781770460126
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92710862
Product Key Features
Book Title
Black Blizzard
Author
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Comics
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
233mm
Item Width
165mm
Item Weight
213g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
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