Tag: Keiji nakazawa

Barefoot Gen Creator Keiji Nakazawa Joins Eisner Hall of Fame

The judges have revealed 19 people who are being added to the Will Eisner Comics Awards Hall of Fame in 2024. One of them is Keiji Nakazawa, whose manga Barefoot Gen was inspired by his own life story of surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. …Read more »

Last Gasp Licenses Prose, Manga Memoirs by Barefoot Gen Creator

August 25, 2021

Danica Davidson

Keiji Nakazawa survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and this experienced forever colored his work. He’s most famous for the manga series Barefoot Gen, a fictionalized story borrowing from what happened to him. And now Last Gasp Publishing has revealed on Twitter that it’s licensed …Read more »