Tezuka Would Have Been 80 Today



It's ridiculous to try to describe Osamu Tezuka's importance in a single paragraph. He's simply too big. Japan's God of Comics can lay claim to being his country's Walt Disney and its Jack Kirby, which is terrifying if you think about it for a second and mind-blowing in that as a description of his body of work it would be sorely incomplete. Reading his manga is one of the foundational comics experiences, and I urge you to make him a significant part of your overall interaction with the art form. One of the wonderful things about comics in the past decade is that more and more Tezuka has become available in handsome, accessible volumes: Phoenix, Buddha, Astro Boy, Ode to Kirihito, Dororo, Black Jack, and MW among them. Please, don't deprive yourself.
 
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