God of Comics – Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post–World War II Manga Power

God of ComicsOsamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga\nAuthor(s): Natsu Onoda Power\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781604732214, 978-1604732214\nSynopsis\nCartoonist Osamu Tezuka [tel] is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animation films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a [url] in medicine. Along with creating the character Astro Boy (Mighty Atom in Japan), 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. God of Comics chronicles Tezuka's life and works, placing his creations both in the cultural climate and in the history of Japanese comics.\n\nThe book emph.