The Push Man and Other Stories

About this book

A collection of short stories from the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics. Legendary cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the grandfather of alternative manga for the adult reader. Predating the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States by thirty years Tatsumi created a library of literary comics that draws parallels with modern prose fiction and todays alternative comics. Designed and edited by one of todays most popular cartoonists Adrian Tomine The Push Man and Other Stories is the debut volume in a groundbreaking new series that collects Tatsumis short stories about Japanese urban life. Tatsumis stories are simultaneously haunting disturbing and darkly humorous commenting on the interplay between an overwhelming bustling crowded modern society and the troubled emotional and sexual life of the individual.