![]() ![]() He and his brother Okimasu read and discuss their favorite comics as fans and, eventually, professionals. Hiroshi, Tatsumi’s alter-ego in the book, is a young school boy obsessed with manga. This mammoth book, which took Tatsumi over a decade to complete, begins after the Japanese surrender in World War II. Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s use of the cicada song - illustrated as a series of thick lines filling the air - provides not only a soundtrack for his development as a young artist in postwar Japan, but also a metaphor for the steady flow of the creative process and the personal and professional static that can block that process. It’s not a solitary sound, but one of many voices together. It is a sound with presence, and hearing it one can almost see the army of insects in the trees, on the ground. It’s an electric sound, like the buzz of fluorescent lights. The sound of cicadas echoes through the pages of A Drifting Life. ![]()
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