"I saw it the atomic bomb of Hiroshima" ( 6 points)

 I read, "I saw it the atomic bomb of Hiroshima"  I was curious how they were going to tackle these heavy subjects in this type of media. For underground comics, this is their chance to bring people into these horrific events and show that comic books are not just used for children's media. Comic books can tell the world's stories through illustration and text. For this comic book Keiji Nakazawa these this personal story of the horrific event of the Hiroshima bombing. And with this, he allows the audience also to have this first-person experience of these events. I liked how they used the halftones for the colors and even made the decision to color it at all. In the comic, He went through his experiences when he was younger and had to go into the bomb Air raid shelters late nights wet and cold every night and not having enough food to eat every day. The anxiety they must have felt every day, not only the children but also the parents knowing what is happening just trying to give them a semi-normal life in all of this chaos. His father taught him how to draw, for he was a Lacqeworker with traditional style painting. I felt it was sweet that his father supported him to be an artist. You do not see this in many artist stories. I was fascinated to see the reality and the thoughts of his perspective of a boy with an innocent mind wanting to catch grasshoppers, play, paint, and eat food. when he left for school the morning of the bombing, it was just a normal day for him at first. I feel it really encapsulated the fear of having your life change in a matter of seconds at any moment like this, especially when he was so young. The drawings were so simply drawn, but it still captured the horror of the moment when the bomb had dropped. The way he describes the effects of the blast on the people's body was horrific, and to see their skin melting. The way he introduced himself and his family made me invested in them, and  I wanted him to find his mother ok. Every death description made me cringe even if the drawings were not as graphic, mostly because this is not a fictional story. All of these things happen, and I can not imagine the phycological trama. To see these things every day and grow numb. I am amazed at how they could continue in these dire times. There was so much death. His mother worked so hard after losing so much. so he worked hard to gain work. Later he was able to find a love for comics and to kept reading and creating them; he worked hard to gain money, and his mother still supported him on his cartooning journey. His mother was able to see him get married and live as a cartoonist. But shortly after passed because of this heartbreak, he vowed to write about Hiroshima's events and how it hurt and affected his mother and his family.