Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual “top 10” lists, including those compiled by Amazon and Time.com. Drawn in 1971 and 1972, these stories expand the 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 directly as a result of World War II: a prostitute loses all hope when American GIs go home to their wives; a man devotes twenty years of his life 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, it is hardly the overriding theme. A philanthropic foot fetishist, a rash-ridden retiree, and a lonely public onanist are but a few of the characters etching out darkly nuanced lives in the midst of isolated despair and fleeting pleasure. *Hell (地獄, Jigoku) "Just a Man" (男 一発, Otoko Ippatsu) "Sky Burial" (鳥葬, Chōsō) "Rash" "Woman in the Mirror" (鏡の中の女, Kagami no Naka no Onna) "Night Falls Again" (夜がまたくる, Yoru ga Mata Kuru) "Life is So Sad" "Click Click Click" (コツコツコツ, Kotsu Kotsu Kotsu) "Good-bye" (グッドバイ, Guddobai)

Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tastsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary short stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called "the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics" and has influenced generations of cartoonists, but, until now, the majority of his works has remained unavailable outside of Japan. By turns poetic, comical, and deeply unsettling, Abandon the Old in Tokyo is a collection of unforgettable short stories from the modern master. *- Drawn & Quarterly* "Starkly beautiful... revelatory... fearless." *- The Village Voice* "Marvelously evocative... Tatsumis's stories flow with dreamlike ambiguity" *- Publishers Weekly* "With both fascination and empathy, Tatsumi explores the lives of people on society's bottom rung and exposes a world of lost souls, unattainable dreams, and unexpected redemption." *- Bookforum*

Oneshots created in 'gekiga' style. A lone man travels the country, projecting pornographic films for private individuals while attempting to maintain a normal home life. A medical student lives a secret life as a sperm donor, and finds his world turned upside down when his donations are rejected by the fertility clinic. A young couple's marriage is irrevocably affected when a sewer rat takes up residence in their home. The lives of two men become intertwined when one hires the other to observe his sexual escapades through a telescope. An auto mechanic's obsession with a female TV personality turns fatal after a chance meeting between the two. The volume consists of the short stories: Piranha, Projectionist, Black Smoke, The Burden, Test Tube, Pimp, The Push Man, Sewer, Telescope, The Killer, Traffic Accident, Make-Up, Disinfection, Who Are You?, Bedridden, My Hitler

A boy abandoned at birth and raised by rats, with the mysterious power to control rats, grows up seeing the dark side of the humans that rejected him, and vows to become humanity's greatest enemy. *Note: Start and end dates based on the tankoubon publication dates.*

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today’s graphic novel movement. A Drifting Life is his monumental memoir eleven years in the making, beginning with his experiences as a child in Osaka, growing up as part of a country burdened by the shadows of World War II. Spanning fifteen years from August 1945 to June 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, the manga artist Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Apollo’s Song, Ode to Kirihito, Buddha)—with whom Tatsumi eventually became a peer and, at times, a stylistic rival. As with his short-story collection, A Drifting Life is designed by Adrian Tomine. *Source: Drawn & Quarterly*

Susumu Yamaji, a twenty-four-year-old pianist, is arrested for murder 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. (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted from the Edo-era Japanese storytelling form. As Tatsumi notes in the afterword, the world of rakugo, filled with mystery, emotion, revenge, hope, and, of course, love, overlaps perfectly with the world of Gekiga that he has spent the better part of his life developing. These slice-of-life stories resonate with modern readers thanks to their comedic elements and familiarity with human idiosyncrasies. In one, a father finds his son too bookish and arranges for two workers to take the young man to a brothel on the pretext of visiting a new shrine. In another particularly beloved rakugo tale, a married man falls in love with a prostitute. When his wife finds out, she is enraged and sets a curse on the other woman. The prostitute responds by cursing the wife, and the two escalate in a spiral of voodoo doll cursing. Soon both are dead, but even death can’t extinguish their jealousy. Tatsumi’s love of wordplay shines through in the telling of these whimsical stories, and yet he still offers timeless insight into human nature. (Source: Drawn and Quarterly)

A collection of short stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. 1. Otoko Ippatsu (男一発, Just a Man) 2. Haittemasu (はいってます, Occupied) 3. Wakaremichi (わかれみち, Forked Road) 4. Sasori (さそり) 5. Shiiku (飼育) 6. Tokyo Ubasuteyama (東京うばすて山, Abandon the Old in Tokyo) 7. Kemono Namida (けもの・なみだ) 8. Kotsu Kotsu Kotsu (コツコツコツ, Click Click Click) 9. ORIZURU -S-kun e no Tegami- (ORIZURU -S君への手紙-) 10. Saikai (再会) 11. Itoshi no Monkey (いとしのモンキー, Beloved Monkey) 12. Goodbye (グッドバイ) 13. Daihakken (大発見) Several of the stories in this collection were published in English by Drawn & Quarterly in the collections *Abandon the Old in Tokyo* and *Goodbye* in 2009. (Source: Wikipedia)

A collection of short stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. 1) **Jigoku** (地獄, Hell); *Weekly Playboy 1971/9/14~21 issues* 2) **Nenbutsu Race** (念仏レース); *Manga Times 1973/11/24 issue* 3) **Chikadou Hotel** (地下道ホテル, The Subway's Hotel); *Manga Goraku 1975/4/10 issue* 4) **Tenohira no Machi** (手のひらの街, The City in the Palm of His Hand); *Manga Times 1973/12/22 issue* 5) **Tatsui no Kawa** (殺意の川); *Young Comic Zoukan 1973/9/25 issue* 6) **Pocket no Naka no Onna** (ポケットの中の女); *Young Comic Zoukan 1973/1/9 issue* 7) **Ai no Hanayome** (愛の花嫁, Love's Bride); *AX Vol.34* 8) **Shita Tsuzumi** (舌つづみ); *Comic Magazine 1979/4/19 issue* 9) **Iro Zange** (色ざんげ); *Young Comic Zoukan 1974/1/8/ issue* 10) **Hana Kurabe Koi Asobi** (花くらべ恋遊び) 11) **Ningyo wo Tsuma ni Shita Otoko** (人魚を妻にした男); *Manga Times 1978/9/29 issue* 12) **Shoufu no Senki** (娼婦の戦記, Chronicle of the Whores's War); *Manga Times 1973/8/25 issue* 13) **Kawaita Machi** (乾いた街)

Story about a young aspiring judoka set during the Meiji period.

A group of five children who are close friends, go on a two-month voyage on a yacht. But a storm breaks the yacht's mast and drifts to an uninhabited island. They spend their days happily while struggling on the uninhabited island named Kodomo Jima. Will they be able to return to Japan ...? (Source: Tsuru Shobo, translated)

From the mangaka who told his life story in A Drifting Life, and gave you Abandon the Old in Tokyo and The Push Man and Other Stories, comes this collection of gekiga of the 1970s which have never before been translated into English. Personally selected for publication exclusively by Landmark Books by Tatsumi, the stories strip away the gloss of the Japanese Economic Miracle to reveal the stresses, desires and angst of the millions of young people who flocked to the cities where life was not what it was promised to be. Compared to Tatsumi’s earlier stories, this collection paints a much more pessimistic world. The stories run on a different beat. The banality of modern life and its values bleed through. Yoshihiro Tatsumi plumbs the depths of the lost Japanese youth of the 1970s. Today, ‘youth’ of every age group appreciates Yoshihiro Tatsumi. They are attracted to him because they connect with the struggles and the darkness of modern life which he portrays. Story list Midnight Fisherman Welcome Home Daddy The Dawn of Porn Run with the Midnight Train My Boobs The Woman's Palace Hometown Misappropriation The Lantern Angler