Pencil these in

In the 1970s, writer and artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi bucked popular trends in manga (Japanese comic books) by crafting short stories that cast an unflinching eye on the lonely and desperate residents of Tokyo and the bizarre lengths they might go to for companionship and fulfillment. These works have recently been collected in books including The Push Man and Other Stories and Good-Bye. In the '90s and '00s, he's been toiling away on his biography, and it's finally here. We only catch glimpses of his relationships with his family, with women, and with the cities