Black Blizzard (manga)

Black Blizzard
Two men handcuffed together are standing in front of a locomotive, with one about to attack the other with a brick
The original cover of Black Blizzard, showing the escaped convicts
黒い吹雪
(Kuroi Fubuki)
GenreCrime noir[1][2]
Manga
Written byYoshihiro Tatsumi
Published byHinomaru Bunko
English publisher
PublishedNovember 1956
Volumes1

Black Blizzard (Japanese: 黒い吹雪, Hepburn: Kuroi Fubuki) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Tatsumi and published by Hinomaru Bunko in November 1956. It is about two convicts who are handcuffed together and escape after the train they are being escorted on crashes. Written by Tatsumi in twenty days, it is considered to be one of the first full-length gekiga works.

Black Blizzard was published in North America by Drawn & Quarterly—in the style of a pulp paperback—on April 13, 2010. The manga's opening sequence was included in Tatsumi, an animated film based on the author's works, in 2011. Reception towards the manga has been positive regarding its style, but the crude art caused critics to be mixed. Manga scholar Ryan Holmberg has called Black Blizzard an unsolicited adaptation of Kazuo Shimada's [ja] "Black Rainbow".

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