num_pages: 224
description: "These stories get under your skin and invite rereading." ­-BookForumAbandon the Old in Tokyo is the second in a three-volume series that collects the short stories of Japanese cartooning legend Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Designed and edited by Adrian Tomine, the first volume, The Push Man and Other Stories , debuted to much critical acclaim and rightfully placed Tatsumi as a legendary precursor to the North American graphic-novel movement. Abandon the Old in Tokyo continues to delve into the urban underbelly of 1960s Tokyo, exposing not only the seedy dealings of the Japanese everyman but Tatsumi's maturation as a story writer.
language: English
title: Abandon the Old in Tokyo
titlecomplete: Abandon the Old in Tokyo
genres: Short Stories, Sequential Art, Graphic Novels Comics, Japanese Literature, Comics, Fiction, Comix, Japan, Manga, Graphic Novels
ratings_count: 2575
series: Tatsumi's short stories
publisher: Drawn and Quarterly