Chris Randle managed to get time to chat with Yoshihiro Tatsumi, creator of the acclaimed D&Q titles Push Man, Good-bye, Abandon the Old in Tokyo and the recent A Drifting Life, at this year’s TCAF (via Chris at Comics 212):
“CR: You mentioned Tezuka, and there’s a few times in the book where he’s depicted as an icon. Obviously he was a great influence on you, but I’m wondering why you made that specific choice to depict him this way – there’s the silhouette on the train at the start of the book, and then he’s sort of shown floating above the sea near the end.
YT: That was how I felt about Tezuka at that time. I mean, when I was a kid I thought of him about on the same level as God. I really wanted to draw that honestly. Right now I don’t think many young people are buying Tezuka’s work in Japan, but at that time… he had a halo, and lights came off of him…“
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