![]() ![]() ![]() The Spring afternoons playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mother’. But as the relatives gather for the funeral and the stories start to flow, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. ![]() So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of well over a decade during which time he has not seen his father. The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a phone call at work informing him of his father’s death. Take a look below through the rest of the forthcoming titles I’ve picked for you. This month also brings audacious graphic novels by relative newcomers, fresh voices well worth your consideration…Īnd from Argentina and Japan come these intoxicating speculative tomorrows, with eerie resonances with our present day. The oeuvre of one of the most outstanding modern masters of manga, the sadly late Jiro Taniguchi, is being sensitively curated and translated into English by Fanfare / Ponent Mon and this new intimate family story ranks very high from his long career. Top 23 Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga: December 2020 ![]()
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