Laura Waddington

/Diary

“I had only read one graphic novel at the time. I turned my attention and soon my awe to gekiga, the socially engaged comics that had emerged in Japan, at the end of the 1950s, with their harsh themes, vivid black and white drawings and cinematic techniques. Uncompromising portraits of the human condition, they carved out room between deceptively simple images and dark societal commentary for their audience’s imaginations to go to work.”

On Mirrors and the Making of M’s story by Laura Waddington

Source: Yoshihiro Tatsumi drawing at TCAF 2009 (YouTube)