Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Yoshihiro Tatsumi (辰巳 ヨシヒロ) is a mangaka who is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative comics in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957. Tatsumi was born in Osaka, Japan in 1935.

His work has been translated into many languages, and Canadian publisher "Drawn and Quarterly" have embarked on a project to publish an annual compendium of his works focusing each on the highlights of one year of his work (beginning with 1969), edited by American cartoonist Adrian Tomine. This is one event in a seemingly coincidental rise to worldwide popularity that Tomine relates to in his introduction to the first volume of the aforementioned series.

Bibliography

English Language

* "Good-Bye" - (Drawn and Quarterly, 2008)
* "Abandon the Old in Tokyo" - (Drawn and Quarterly, 2006)
* "The Push Man and other stories" - (Drawn and Quarterly, 2005)
* "Good-Bye and other stories" - (Catalan Communications, 1988)

panish Language

* "Goodbye" - (Public Square Books, 2005)
* "Inferno" - (Public Square Books, 2005)
* "Venga, Saca Las Joyas" - (Ponent Mon, 2004)
* "La Gran Revelación" - (Ponent Mon, 2004)
* "Que triste es la vida y otras historias" - (La Cúpula, 1984)

French Language

* "Coups d'éclat" - (Vertige Graphic, 2004)
* "Les larmes de la bête" - (Vertige Graphic, 2004)
* "Good Bye" - (Vertige Graphic, 2004)

wedish Language

A few of Tatsumi's short stories were published in the 1980s in the alternative comic anthology "Pox", published by "RSR Epix".

* "Hundkojan" - (The Dog House)
* "På lek" - (For Fun)
* "Teleskopet" - (The Telescope)
* "Desinfektion" - (Desinfection)
* "Good-Bye"

Polish Language

Six short stories by Tatsumi were published in the year 2008 by "Kultura Gniewu" publishing house in in the anthology entitled "Kobiety" ("Women").

* "Uparta zlosnica"
* "Dziewczyna do zabawy"
* "Mam faceta"
* "Kobieta zbyt wrazliwa"
* "Szepce ci do ucha"
* "Kobieta z wedka"

("Sources": "The Push Man and other stories", Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr)