In 1956, at age of twenty-one, Yoshihiro Tatsumi arrived as a major new talent in Japan's burgeoning manga industry with the publication of his graphic novel Black Blizzard. With influences ranging from Osamu Tezuka to Alexandre Dumas to Mickey Spill In 1956, at age of twenty-one, Yoshihiro Tatsumi arrived as a major new talent in Japan's burgeoning manga industry with the publication of his graphic novel Black Blizzard. With influences ranging from Osamu Tezuka to Alexandre Dumas to Mickey Spillane, Tatsumi's noir thriller displayed a cinematic, hard-boiled aesthetic, as well as a prodigious knack for inventive, fast-paced storytelling. Long out of print and never before published in English, Black Blizzard is a rare piece of Japanese cartooning history and an enduring work of high entertainment. ...Continua Nascondi
