A review by chelseamartinez
Good-Bye by Yoshihiro Tatsumi

3.0

Sad-sack (I mean this in a good way) tales of post-WWII Japan. The editor of this volume is Adrian Tomine, and you can definitely see the influence of Tatsumi's work on him and other 21st century quotidian comics artists like Chris Ware thematically. "Hell" is epic, but I liked the mildly dark endings of "Just a Man" and "Sky Burial" and "Rash" (possibly hopefully ending?) and "Click Click Click" best. Reading these stories of 1950s-60s "depraved" manhood takes me back to my Mad Magazine and Phillip Roth reading days, but it reads differently in another culture recovering from the harrowing experience of being so thoroughly bombed and defeated, the opposite of America post 1945.