Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa created the feature "Ore wa Mita", an eyewitness account of the atomic-bomb devastation in Japan, in the monthly manga Monthly Shōnen Jump in 1972. (Translated into English as "I Saw It", it ran in the United States in Educomics' Food First Comics in 1982.)[1] Nakazawa went on to serialize the longer, autobiographical Hadashi No Gen (Barefoot Gen)[1] beginning in the June 4, 1973 edition of Weekly Shōnen Jump manga magazine,[2] It was cancelled after a year and a half, and moved to three other less widely distributed magazines: Shimin (Citizen), Bunka Hyōron (Cultural Criticism), and Kyōiku Hyōron (Educational Criticism). It was published in book collections in Japan beginning in 1975.