Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima

Keiji Nakazawa’s searing autobiographical manga, originally serialized in Japan, found a complete English-language home from Last Gasp across eleven issues (2003–2010). Translated by Namie Asazuma and Alan Gleason, this unflinching account follows young Gen through the bombing of Hiroshima and its devastating aftermath, rendered in Nakazawa’s stark, expressive artwork. A landmark work of war literature in comics form, it remains a vital, human-scale testament to survival and the cost of nuclear war.