Gekiga Hyouryuu
A Drifting Life

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Autobiographical works of renowned manga artists. Mizuki's memoir covers his kamishibai and kashihon years up to the opening of Mizuki Production. He also recounts the beginning of his partnership with Shouichi Sakurai, among other things, so it's nice to read his memoir after getting to know the characters from Tatsumi's one. 

Both are about the lives of aspiring mangaka and how they came to be around the same time period of WW2, A Drifting Life also mentions Osamu Tezuka. 

Both work detail the life and struggle of a poor manga/manhwa artist, both with their job and with the environment surrounding them 

Long autobiographical works of legendary manga artists told alongside historical events of the era. 

Two autobiographies by pillars of the gekiga genre retracing the creation of this movement as well as the cultural context in which it was born. While “A Drifting Life” presents a rich and broad account of it through several decades, “Gekiga Fanatics” only focuses on the few years in the late 50s when the trio Tatsumi-Saito-Masahiko were teens living together and working for hinomaru bunko up until they finally moved to Kokubunji, making it a solid complementary reading. They share the same feeling of being unglorified and neutral outlook on their life, presenting facts in an almost documentary-like manner, entertwining their journey with those of several others popular authors.  read more 

(Semi-)autobiographical titles in which mangaka retrace their career and their struggles as artists.