The Push Man and Other Stories

This 2012 collection from Drawn & Quarterly gathers sixteen short stories by the legendary Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a pioneer of the gekiga style of Japanese comics. Originally published in the late 1960s and early 1970s, these stark, psychologically intense tales focus on the lives of ordinary, often marginalized people in postwar Japan. Translated by Yuji Oniki, the volume offers a potent introduction to Tatsumi's unflinching, humanistic vision.