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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778414703321

Autore

Power Natsu Onoda

Titolo

God of comics [[electronic resource] ] : Osamu Tezuka and the creation of post-World War II manga / / Natsu Onoda Power

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-48481-8

1-282-48528-8

9786612484810

9786612485282

1-60473-478-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Great comics artists series

Disciplina

741.5/952

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928?1989) 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 Ph.D. 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 chronicle