The Best Manga You’re Not Reading
On Saturday, June 26th, Brigid Alverson, Robin Brenner, Martha Cornog, and I gave a presentation at the American Library Association’s…
Tag: Osamu Tezuka
Ode to Kirihito, Vols. 1-2
“When he heard his cry for help, it wasn’t human” — so went the tagline for Ken Russell’s Altered States…
Osamu Tezuka’s MW
Invoke Tezuka’s name, and most readers immediately think of Astro Boy, Buddha, and Princess Knight. But there’s a darker side…
Dororo, Vols. 1-3
If Phoenix is Tezuka’s Ring Cycle, Wagnerian in scope, form, and seriousness, then Dororo is Tezuka’s Don Giovanni, a playful…
Swallowing the Earth
Nineteen sixty-eight was a critical year in Osamu Tezuka’s artistic development. Best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Jungle…