Cover: Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Black Blizzard #[nn]

Mar 2010 · Drawn & Quarterly · 19.95 USD; 21.95 CAD

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“Black Blizzard”

About this Collection

Black Blizzard collects the 1950s crime comic by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a seminal work in the gekiga style that follows a pianist and a murderer handcuffed together during a prison break. This Drawn & Quarterly edition presents the stark, moody story that helped define Tatsumi's career and the alternative manga movement.

In "Black Blizzard," Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Akemi Wegmüller craft a gripping, starkly drawn tale of desperation and moral reckoning. After Shinpei is arrested for killing a ringmaster who threatened his lover Saeko, he escapes a derailed train only to be handcuffed to a hardened convict named Susumu—leading to a harrowing choice that tests the limits of survival and innocence. The story, illustrated and inked by Tatsumi with lettering by Adrian Tomine, features a cover by Tatsumi himself, capturing the tension of a world where trust is as fragile as a handrail on a broken train.