Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Autobiographical comics, Non-fiction graphic novels, Barefoot Gen, A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, Maus, American Splendor, 9-11, Safe Area Goražde, For Beginners, LLC, The Cartoon History of the Universe, A People's History of American Empire, Evita, vida y obra de Eva Perón, Action Philosophers!, Larry Gonick, Brought to Light, Rocky, Palestine, Laika, Understanding Comics, Ernie Colón, Addicted to War, Sid Jacobson, American Elf, Hill& Wang, Ethel and Ernest, Fortune and Glory, Chicken with Plums, Jim, Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, Reinventing Comics, Tales from the Heart, Sarajevo Tango, Introducing Kafka, Fax from Sarajevo, Peepshow, The Fixer, Notes from a Defeatist. Excerpt: Barefoot Gen Hadashi no Gen) is a Japanese manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. Loosely based on Nakazawa's own experiences as a Hiroshima survivor, the series begins in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where the six-year-old boy Gen lives with his family. After Hiroshima is destroyed by atomic bombing, Gen and other survivors are left to deal with the aftermath. Barefoot Gen ran in several magazines, including Weekly ShÅnen Jump, from 1973 to 1985. It was subsequently adapted into three live action film adaptations directed by Tengo Yamada, which were released between 1976 and 1980. Madhouse released two anime films, one in 1983 and one in 1986. In 2007, a live action television drama series adaptation aired in Japan on Fuji TV over two nights, August 10 and 11. The story begins on August 4, 1945, in Hiroshima with the everyday life of Gen, his younger brother Shinji, their father Daikichi, elder sister Eiko, and pregnant mother Kimie, during the final days of World War II. The beginning of the plot mainly focuses on the Nakaoka family's struggle to afford food ration cards and other ite...
