PRI's The World Examines Yoshihiro Tatsumi's "A Drifting Life"

Humberto Saabedra

ImagePublic Radio International’s newsmagazine The World features an interview with Adrian Tomine, editor of the English edition of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s semi-autobiographical work “A Drifting Life”.

“A Drifting Life” was recently awarded with the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, and the interview focuses on Tatsumi’s influence on manga and the impact of the gekiga style which is attributed to him as well as personal observations from Tomine.

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