Barefoot Gen, Vol. 8: Merchants of Death
Keiji Nakazawa was six years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown of Hiroshima. Only a mile from ground zero, the boy miraculously survived but lost his father, brother and sister in the ensuing holocaust. Growing up in postwar Hiroshima, he loved reading comics and showed a flair for drawing at an early age. He eventually moved to Tokyo to pursue a full-time career as a cartoonist. Now retired from cartooning, Nakazawa lives with his wife in the suburbs of Tokyo, but still spends much of the year in Hiroshima.