THE PUSH MAN AND OTHER STORIES

THE PUSH MAN AND OTHER STORIES YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI

Thirty years before the advent of the literary graphic novel movement in the United States, Yoshihiro Tatsumi created a library of comics that draw parallels to modern prose fiction and today's alternative comics. The stories collected in The Push Man are simultaneously haunting, disturbing, and darkly humorous. A lone man travels the country, projecting pornographic films for private individuals while attempting to maintain a normal home life. The lives of two men become intertwined when one hires the other to observe his sexual escapades through a telescope. An auto mechanic's obsession with a female TV personality turns fatal after a chance meeting between the two

YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI

Born in 1935, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, who has influenced generations of cartoonists, lives in Japan.