Ryan Holberg writing for the Comics Journal;

Tatsumi is famous as the artist who helped fashion a new style of manga known as “gekiga” (dramatic pictures), a term he coined in 1957. He played a major role in broadening the possibilities of the medium to accommodate mature-reader genres like mystery, action, and horror, oftentimes in 100-plus-page, single-story books that predate the advent of the “graphic novel” by many decades. Though there was hardly a genre Tatsumi didn’t try his hand at, he is best known for the stories he created in the late ’60s and early ’70s about the bleak lives and perversions of aging white-collar and low-level blue-collar workers.

Tatsumi Yoshihiro, 1935-2015

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