Keiji Nakazawa Returns to Back Gate

Here's an interesting little feature story about the author of the lightly fictionalized nuclear bomb survivor memoir Barefoot Gen retracing his steps in Hiroshima, particularly as his trip pertains seeing the piece of gate that saved his life. There's an odd thread at the Comics Journal messageboard about whether or not the presentational quirks of Barefoot Gen undermine the story -- I've never even thought about it -- but the power of Keiji Nakazawa's experience just about kills me in any form. The interview he did in the Comics Journal magazine a couple years back, when he talked about carrying the remains of a relative around in a bucket, makes me shudder just thinking about it.
 
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