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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969013403321

Autore

Power Natsu Onoda

Titolo

God of comics : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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 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. 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.