good-bye

Hello, good-bye. As most of you know, I'm the editor-in-chief of ComicsAlliance. I created this site a little over three years ago at the behest of AOL, and because I am a very lucky person, it somehow grew from a weird little blog where I was the sole contributor -- an awkward era I in no way encourage you to revisit -- to one of the biggest comics sites on the Internet with a staff of enormously

Indie manga legend Yoshihiro Tatsumi has earned acclaim in the States for his bleak, heartbreaking post-WWII works like "Good-Bye" and "Abandon the Old in Tokyo" that go into some pretty dark, broken places in the human spirit. I'd always seen manga as cross-cultural comics that weren't subject to "aren't they for kids...