Pushing the Limits
Cartoonist Adrian Tomine discovers a Japanese manga master
Yoshihiro Tatsumi's The Push Man and Other Stories Village Voice > books >October 3rd, 2005 4:42 PM
....The Push Man's street-level protagonists are tongue-tied laborers who mutilate their prostitute girlfriends, a wife-abusing hit man with a weak stomach, a taciturn projectionist who traverses Japan to screen porn for corporate officers, and sewer workers who search for wayward treasures as they slog through underground streams clogged with rats, garbage, and aborted fetuses.
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