Barefoot Gen 1

Auteur

Keiji Nakazawa was born in Hiroshima, and was six years old when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945. Keiji Nakazawa penned numerous comics during his long career as a cartoonist. He is best known for his series Barefoot Gen. Nakazawa retired from cartooning in 2009. He continued to lecture throughout Japan about the experience of atomic bomb victims, until his death in Hiroshima in 2012, at age 73. Nakazawa was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2024. He is survived by his wife, daughter, and grandchildren.

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Barefoot Gen s the powerful, tragc, autoographcal story of the omng of Hroshma and ts aftermath, seen through the eyes of the artst as a young oy growng up n Japan. The author survved the atomc om, and ears wtness to ths tragc event. Nakazawa's honest portrayal of emotons and experences speaks to chldren and adults everywhere. Barefoot Gen serves as a remnder of the sufferng war rngs to nnocent people, and as a unque documentaton of an especally horrle source of sufferng, the atomc om.
Cartoonst Kej Nakazawa was sx years old when the atomc om was dropped on hs hometown of Hroshma. Shelded y a stone wall, he mraculously survved the last. In ths llustrated memor, Nakazawa recounts hs wartme chldhood, hs experence survvng the atomc om, and how the effects revererated throughout hs lfe. Compelled to tell hs story n the memory of hs famly, Nakazawa turned to comcs, pennng hs epc graphc novel seres, Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hroshma.

Ths s part one of a new, fve-part edton. The new edton features all new letterng throughout as well as four pages n color for the frst tme. Ths edton collects the frst two volumes of the seres: Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hroshma and Barefoot Gen: The Day After.