Free Comic Book Day: Drawn & Quarterly Presents Shigeru Mizuki's Showa- A History Of Japan (2011)
 
Story, Art, and Cover by Shigeru Mizuki. Shigeru Mizuki's Showa: A History of Japan FCBD 2014 will offer a rare preview of the 2,000 page masterpiece on the history of modern Japan. The D+Q series will be published in four separate volumes throughout 2014 and early 2015 and this special FCBD edition will offer an excerpt of the harrowing period covering World War 2 and beyond. Award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki writes affectingly about the impact on the Japanese populace of world-changing moments including the devastating Second Sino-Japanese War, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the first half of the Pacific War. Mizuki is one of the early pioneers of manga and is one of the most beloved creators in Japanese comics! 32 pages, B&W. NOTE: This is a Japanese manga-style magazine and is meant to be read right-to-left.
 
Shigeru Mizuki (1922-2015) was one of Japan's most respected artists. An artistic prodigy, he lost an arm in World War II to a bomb while suffering from malaria. After the war, Mizuki became one of the founders of Japan's latest craze—manga. He invented the yokai genre with Ge ge ge no Kitaro and founded the gekiga—dramatic manga— movement with autobiographical wartime accounts such as Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths. He has received almost every award the comics industry has to offer, including the Kodansha Manga Award, Eisner Award and the Angouleme Award, as well as the Shiju Hosho Medal of Honor and the Order of the Rising Sun.
 
Shigeru Mizuki is a specialist in stories of yōkai and is considered a master of the genre. He is a member of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, and has traveled to over sixty countries around the world to engage in fieldwork on the yōkai and spirits of different cultures. He has been published in Japan, South Korea, France, Spain, Taiwan, and Italy.
 
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