Manga legend Mizuki Shigeru’s “The Power of Sleep”, quoted by Heidi McDonald in her piece on the surge of the hashtag.

The manga depicts an argument between Mizuki and Tezuka about the importance of rest.

Tezuka never slept and died at age 60 of stomach cancer.
His last words were “I’m begging you, let me work!”

Mizuki, who lost an arm in WWII, lived to be 93.

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hashtag gained traction after 38-years-old cartoonist Ian McGinty recently died of what friends and colleagues attributed to chronic exhaustion, shedding rare light on a toxic comics industry culture of overwork, underpay, health issues and burnout.

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