Yoshihiro Tatsumi: Still Clearing The Bases

On this episode, Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner and Tucker Stone dedicate themselves to speaking to one another about the recently deceased Yoshihiro Tatsumi--why they like him, what others thought of him, and the nature of studying the history of another culture's art form when you don't know the language of that culture. The books talked about on this episode are published for the most part by Drawn and Quarterly. They are: Black Blizzard The Push Man and Other Stories Abandon The Old In Tokyo Good-Bye Fallen Words A Drifting Life