5 results for "Osamu Tezuka"
Manga's roots stretch back to 12th-century picture scrolls, but it took Osamu Tezuka, weekly anthology magazines, and the tankōbon format to turn it into a global industry.
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When Tezuka's Mushi Production needed to bring "Astro Boy" to television on a tiny budget in 1963, the workarounds his team invented accidentally became the defining visual language of anime.
27 days ago
Black Jack began in 1973 as an unlikely serialization — a darkly moral medical thriller in a children's magazine. Tezuka used it to say things his other work could not, and it became the most personal manga of his career.
about 2 months ago
In 1957, Yoshihiro Tatsumi coined the term "gekiga" to describe darker, more realistic comics for adults. The movement he launched changed manga's possibilities forever.
about 1 month ago
Naoki Urasawa has been called the Spielberg of manga. His work — Monster, 20th Century Boys, Pluto — combines the plotting of a thriller with psychological depth that most novelists never achieve. Here's how he does it.
12 days ago