Ebook: Tezuka's manga life
Author: Lunning Frenchy, Tezuka Osamu
- Tags: Tezuka Osamu -- 1928-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation. Caricatures and cartoons -- Japan -- History -- 20th century. Comic books strips etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism. Tezuka Osamu 1928-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation. Tezuka Osamu 1928-1989 -- Themes motives. ART -- Techniques -- Drawing. HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan. Tezuka Osamu -
- Series: Mechademia Volume 8
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- City: Japan
- Language: English
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Known as the "Walt Disney of Japan" it is no surprise that Tezuka Osamu is still the best-known manga creator to Western fans. Current scholarship has uncovered the profound complexity and ambiguity not only of his work but of the man, the artist, and his life-dismantling his position as the god of manga. Contributors to this volume of Mechademia-a series devoted to creative and critical work on anime, manga, and Read more...
Abstract: Known as the "Walt Disney of Japan" it is no surprise that Tezuka Osamu is still the best-known manga creator to Western fans. Current scholarship has uncovered the profound complexity and ambiguity not only of his work but of the man, the artist, and his life-dismantling his position as the god of manga. Contributors to this volume of Mechademia-a series devoted to creative and critical work on anime, manga, and the fan arts-analyze Tezuka and his complicated approaches toward life and nonlife on earth, as well as his effect on the lives of other manga artists. Using essays and reprints of Jap