Nakazawa, Keiji

Nakazawa, Keiji. Barefoot Gen The Day After. A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima. Trans. Dadakai and Project Gen. Philadelphia New Society Publishers, 1987. [First serialized in 1972-73 as Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen) in Shukan Shonen Jampu, the largest weekly comic magazine in Japan.]... 

Nakazawa, "The Keiji Nakazawa Interview," by Alan Gleason, Comics Journal 256 (October 2003) 38. "A Note from the Author," in Keiji Nakazawa, Barefoot Gen A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima, vol. 1, (San Francisco Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2004), viii-x. Nakazawa, "Keiji Nakazawa Interview," 46. 

Nakazawa, "Keiji Nakazawa Interview," 46. At the forefront of the public dis-... 

See "Barefoot Gen, The Atomic Bombs and I The Hiroshima Legacy, Nakazawa Keiji interviewed by Asai Motofumi, trans. by Richard H. Minear, http //www.japan focus.org/-Nakazawa-Keiji/2638 (accessed May 5, 2009). Nakazawa, "Keiji Nakazawa Interview," 8. Paul Gravett, "Keiji Nakazawa Barefoot in Hiroshima, http //www.paul-gravett.com/index.php/articles/article/keiji nakazawa/ (accessed August 8, 2009). 

Nakazawa, Keiji. Barefoot Gen A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima. Vol. 1. San Francisco Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2004. 

Keiji Nakazawa by Asai Motofumi. Translated by Richard H. Minear. http //www. japanfocus.org/-Nakazawa-Keiji/2638. 

Finally, in 1981 Rifas began publishing Japanese cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa s Barefoot Gen in standard American comic book format. A semiautobiographical depiction of Hiroshima from the victim s perspective—to be discussed in detail shortly—Bare/bof Gen today ranks among the best-known manga in all of Japanese history. It has sold over eight million copies, and has also been made into a popular cartoon film. 

In its initial form, Godzilla functioned as an allegory, not a direct atomic statement. Because of this relative silence on the moral issues involved, Keiji Nakazawa s Barefoot Gen (turned into anime in 1995) holds a unique position in comic book history. 

Born in 1939 in Hiroshima, Keiji Nakazawa was only six when the atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown. Thanks to the concrete wall of his school, he survived with only minor injuries, but he lost his father, sister, and brother to the ensuing conflagration. He later... 

The artist Keiji Nakazawa was himself a hibakusha, but Barefoot Gen differs from many other hibakusha films or manga in several important ways. Whereas most protagonists in the hibakusha films are women who suffer and endure, Barefoot Gen features men as the... 

See Monica Braw, The Atomic Bomb Suppressed (Armonk, NY M. S. Sharpe, 1991), 89-133. Schodt, Manga Manga , 128. Jun Ishiko, The Bomb Did Not Just Fall, " in Barefoot Gen Life After the Bomb, edited by Keiji Nakazawa (San Francisco Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2005), 3 iii-v (first published in 1975). 

Keiji Nakazawa, Kuroi ame ni utarete [Stmek by Black Rain] (Tokyo Dino Box, 2005), 8,12-13, 30. 

The Keiji Nakazawa Interview." By Alan Gleason. Comics Journal 256. Excerpt... 

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