God of comics : Osamu Tezuka and the creation of post-World War II manga / Natsu Onoda Power.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Power, Natsu Onoda.

Series:

Great comics artists series.

Great comics artists series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--Japan--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Tezuka, Osamu.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. He published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animated films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a Ph.D. in medicine. He is best known for establishing story comics as the mainstream genre in the Japanese comic book industry, creating narratives with cinematic flow and complex characters. This style influenced all subsequent Japanese output. This book chronicles Tezuka's life and works, placing his creations both in the cultural climate and in the history of Japanese comics.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Notes on Japanese names, titles, and reading order

Acknowledgments

Introduction and some definitions

Tezuka in history/History in Tezuka

Movie in a book

Stars and jokes

Communities and competitions

Sapphire and other heroines

Tormenting affairs with animation

Low humor/high drama, the two faces of adult comics

God of comics, master of quotations

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-48481-8

1-282-48528-8

9786612484810

9786612485282

1-60473-478-7

OCLC:

472605993