Jirō Taniguchi
A Journal of My Father (父の暦)
Big Comic
Shogakukan, 1994
(French edition published by Casterman in 1999 as Le journal de mon père)
I have a fondness for the little things that make up everyday life. I don’t really know how I do it. I observe things meticulously and reproduce the details, the insignificant aspects that people don’t notice. I suppose it’s primarily this attention to detail that makes the story feel even more real.
Jirō Taniguchi, interviewed in Coyote Mag in 2003