Have moved from Black Jack to Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life. A nice jump, seeing as how Black Jack’s Osamu Tezuka figures prominently in Tatsumi’s autobiographical work.

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Approaching manga anew is daunting. There’s just too much to encounter all at once. Though we can of course reframe that terror as thrill, that same giddy high offered to us by the library. Too much content! The internet promises the same, but hides everything out of sight, searched and revealed one chunk at a time.