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Yoshihiro Tatsumi Passes Away, Aged 79
Paul Gravett reports, The news came through to me in a short email yesterday, March 7th 2015: "Sensei passed away today." Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the 'sensei' or grand master of 'gekiga', a term he coined for the darker, more dramatic form of manga in Japan His innovations were vitally important for Japanese comics and his lifetime's[...]