Black blizzard - Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi's remarkable first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. Tatsumi documented how his love for Mickey Spillane and hardboiled crime novels led him to create this landmark genre of manga in his epic critically acclaimed 2009 autobiography, A DRIFTING LIFE. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Tatsumi explores the dark underbelly of his working-class heroes that five deacdes later will make him one of the most well known Japanese cartoonists in North America.