Good-Bye TP

Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand Yoshihiro Tatsumi s prolific artist 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. Yet, while American influence does play a role in the disturbing and bizarre stories contained within this volume, as always it is Tatsumi s characters that bear his hallmark, muddling through isolated despair and fleeting pleasure to live out their darkly nuanced lives.