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A review by michaelclorah
Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Adrian Tomine, Kōji Suzuki, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Yuji Oniki
5.0
The best of Tatsumi's underground, short manga stories from 1970 (following last year's The Push Man and other Stories, which collected the best of his work from '69) is here, finally. I enjoyed the last book, and this one is even better.
Tatsumi talks briefly about Japan climbing out of post-WWII economic ruin in the late '60s, and how it was often done at the cost of the worker, which explains so much about the tone of these stories. Workers suffer ignominy after ignominy in stony silence, bearing the cost of Japan's revival. Really tragic, terrifying stuff - and great art, despite Tatsumi's reliance on only a few stock faces.
Tatsumi talks briefly about Japan climbing out of post-WWII economic ruin in the late '60s, and how it was often done at the cost of the worker, which explains so much about the tone of these stories. Workers suffer ignominy after ignominy in stony silence, bearing the cost of Japan's revival. Really tragic, terrifying stuff - and great art, despite Tatsumi's reliance on only a few stock faces.