Mr . Tatsumi looks just about the same here at ages 10 and 25 " . he further comments " a book like " A Drifting Life " is fairly easy to pick apart on a drawing-by-drawing or line-by-line basis.
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Comics212's Christopher Butcher comments " At its heart " A Drifting Life " is a memoir, filled with a density of details to give it a setting and place that will be immediately familiar to Japanese readers of the last generation but that will largely evade North American ones.
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It was not only the theater it was the theater plus the glamour of the wandering drifting life, the drama of the river towns, the mystery and terror of the Mississippi itself . . . I spent a year hunting down every available scrap of show-boat material; reading, interviewing, taking notes and making outlines ."
