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Tatsumi, Yoshihiro. The Push Man and Other Stories. Drawn & Quarterly. 2005. 208p. tr. from Japanese by Yuji Oniki. ISBN 1-896597-85-8. $19.95. F
In 1957, manga creator Tatsumi coined the term gekiga (or "dramatic pictures") to denote the new types of stories he and others were starting to create--serious dramas for adult readers. This first volume of a planned series presents 16 Tatsumi short stories from 1969. Tatsumi's subject was the working people around him; many of his protagonists are aimless, unhappy men, unsure of their roles in life, who are led to extreme and desperate acts, often taking revenge on …