Good-Bye

This is what manga should be like...or gekiga as this mature stuff is called. Very sophisticated

Strange tales of obsession and tormented people (mostly middle-aged men) in post-war Japan. The art is a mixture of realistic backgrounds mixed with distorted "Dick Tracy" characters. Most of these short stories are foggy and fairly chilling, almost David Lynch-like. Not for the squeamish.As much as I like Tatsumi's work such as  The Push Man and Other Stories  and  Abandon the Old in Tokyo , this one was so depressing it almost lost it for me. He has a brilliant way of telling a story. however, and uses the settings in a remarkable way. Many of the obsessions in this book, unlike previous volumes, are more overtly sexual. There is also a thread of political commentary in this book that is largely absent from the others.

This bound book of early japanese comics isn't as entertaining as it is informative. The comics aregrim symbols of a culture recovering from war, reconstructing both cultures and minds. As such, they're more sociology than frivolity.They're aiming for shock effect, reflecting the cynicism of post-war Japan. Neurotic and erotic in stark black and white renditions their emotions are readily apparent. Anger, frustration and disappointments mark every story. But the harsh art conveying the hopelessness of the characters does cause one to think about how wars go on long after a truce is signed.Many fine anti-war/post WWII movies cover the same ground.This one comes to mind:  Red Angel  It offersthe same kind of angst and hopeless anger from an adjacenttime period. Akira Kurosawa also has several films on this darktopic.. . . Not for young people; Maybe just for comicsacademics/historians or WWII vets on either side.

Tatsumi's world is a world quite humane. The words "dark", "intense" are thrown around these days too often. This book is a collection of short stories very much like "The push-Man and other stories" and "Abandon the old in Tokyo". It is dark, intense and at the same time very real glimpses of middle class life in a not so inconceivable place. I, for one, would personally recommend any of Tatsumi's books.

Tatsumi is the greatest there is. I wish they would publish more of his work in English.

Non-pretentious, quality comics from Japan. Tatsumi is a leading figure, and irreplaceable exponent of the manga canon. A world of difference from some of the more popular and stylized examples of later-generational manga. Tatsumi boils his craft down to an essential and bold simplicity.

As described.

I've enjoyed all of Tatsumi's published work (that is in English), and purchased the books for my small library. His art provides social commentary in a rare form that could be considered *extremely* offensive to some -- fair warning!

4,5 de 5 estrelas.Tatsumi pode ser considerado um dos pais da graphic novel moderna. Talvez antes mesmo de will Eisner, ele já fazia histórias adultas, com personagens verossímeis e tramas realistas."Good-Bye" é formado por vários contos curtos, de 10 a 30 páginas cada, e mostra uma visão bastante amarga sobre a sociedade japonesa dos anos do pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial. Praticamente todas deixam um gosto amargo na boca após serem lidas - o que para alguns pode ser ruim, mas fica claro que esse é o propósito. Tatsumi sempre mostra pessoas desajustadas, que de alguma forma não se encaixam bem ao tempo em que vivem.Uma nota curiosa é que a leitura não é em sentido oriental - e parece que foi feito assim mesmo pelo autor, já que não notei o espelhamento da arte.Grande arte e roteiro. Recomendado a todos os amantes de quadrinhos.

En mi opinión son historias bastante interesantes donde aparecen personajes entrañables. A mi me agrado la ilustración.

Du pur Tatsumi, sombre en brut de décoffrage. Des histoires à thématique adulte à recommander à tous les fans de manga "social"...

the stories on here are more like the things you'd find at the back of magazinesthe book in general doesn't have enough pages to make any of the stories significant or attachableif it were 600 pages long, fair enough but it is 204 pages longmost manga-ka's would use about that many pages for volume 1 of a series of books