Tatsumi Remembers When Manga Was for Kids
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...