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Discover the enduring legacy of one of the most influential figures in the history of comics. Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) is arguably one of the most important and influential figures in post-WWII comics - both in Japan, the home of Manga, and in America. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced a number of animated films, and wrote numerous essays and short stories. He also created the iconic character Astro Boy - one of the earliest Japanese-produced cartoons to be broadcast in the USA. "God of Comics" is a succinctly written and thoroughly researched chronicle of Tezuka's life and works, placing his outstanding achievements in the context of the cultural climate of the time, and in the history of Japanese comics. One of the first in-depth studies of Tezuka's oeuvre to be published in English, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the lasting legacy of one of the most influential figures in the history of comics.
著者について
Natsu Onoda Power is a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Her work has appeared in the International Journal of Comic Art.
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Excellent research
2010/5/15
形式:ペーパーバック
Power's dissertation comes as many other Tezuka books have; well thought-out, researched into the ground, and with great pictures at that. The books main fault is its beginning which gives a brief (but not too brief) account of manga before WWII, starting with great visual poets like Kakuyu (1053-1140), who Tezuka appropriated and used himself, and moving all the way to post-war Tezuka, as the title states. It was interesting for me, but for anyone but the hardcore collector, it may seem like a slow buildup to our main subject.
But when Power starts talking Tezuka, it's ON. An in depth analysis covers almost every major work he's done from 'akaihon' like "New Treasure Island" and its wonderful, film-like narrative, all the way to greats like "Black Jack" and "Buddha". Chapter 4 is a look at Tezuka's "Star System", his inherent (and fictional) world of 'stars' that make up his manga world, and, like movie stars, appear all over. This is one of the most interesting and memorable things about Tezuka's art, and Power does a great job reminding us why this man is worshiped as a god.
Power also gives us Tezuka's look at animation and his difficulties with it. Chapter 8 focuses on the multiple styles that Tezuka worked in and one begins to wonder how one man put out so many tens of thousands of pages. But Power covers that as well, telling of Tezuka's large fan-base (ranging from ages 5 to 80) and his loyal workers who did countless hours of beta and coloring work so that he could complete the massive amount of work he started (though "Phoenix" and a few others were left unfinished at his death in 1989).
This is some great research accompanied by untranslated pages of certain Tezuka works, all nicely tied in with each topic. While you may prefer something like The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution, nothing I've seen has come close to the detail and analysis of works outside of his popular manga. This will tie down any Tezuka fan until they rush back to the store for the newest volume of "Black Jack". Highly recommended for ANYONE who knows (or doesn't know!) who the god of manga was, and how he influenced everything we read in panel form today.
But when Power starts talking Tezuka, it's ON. An in depth analysis covers almost every major work he's done from 'akaihon' like "New Treasure Island" and its wonderful, film-like narrative, all the way to greats like "Black Jack" and "Buddha". Chapter 4 is a look at Tezuka's "Star System", his inherent (and fictional) world of 'stars' that make up his manga world, and, like movie stars, appear all over. This is one of the most interesting and memorable things about Tezuka's art, and Power does a great job reminding us why this man is worshiped as a god.
Power also gives us Tezuka's look at animation and his difficulties with it. Chapter 8 focuses on the multiple styles that Tezuka worked in and one begins to wonder how one man put out so many tens of thousands of pages. But Power covers that as well, telling of Tezuka's large fan-base (ranging from ages 5 to 80) and his loyal workers who did countless hours of beta and coloring work so that he could complete the massive amount of work he started (though "Phoenix" and a few others were left unfinished at his death in 1989).
This is some great research accompanied by untranslated pages of certain Tezuka works, all nicely tied in with each topic. While you may prefer something like The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution, nothing I've seen has come close to the detail and analysis of works outside of his popular manga. This will tie down any Tezuka fan until they rush back to the store for the newest volume of "Black Jack". Highly recommended for ANYONE who knows (or doesn't know!) who the god of manga was, and how he influenced everything we read in panel form today.
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Book Nitty-Gritty
2011/5/29
形式:ハードカバー
Hardback: maroon cloth over boards with a sewn binding. Released without dustjacket.
202 pp. About 50 b&w illustrations. Indexed. 20 page Bibliography.
Here's the extended blurb:
"The book chronicles Tezuka's life and works, contextualizing his works both in the cultural climate of the time and the history of Japanese comics. Revered as the 'God of Comics,' Tezuka created the character Astro Boy (Mighty Atom in Japan) and is best known for establishing story comics as the mainstream genre in the Japanese comic book industry.
A major emphasis in Onoda Power's work is Tezuka's use of intertextuality. An artist with broad interests and great intellectual curiosity, Tezuka's works are filled with quotations from other texts and cultural products such as film, opera, and literature. Often these quoted texts and images bring with them a world of meanings, enriching the narrative.
Tezuka also used stock characters and recurrent visual jokes as a way of creating a coherent world that emcompasses all of his works. Readers grow familiar with characters and jokes, developing intimate relationships with Tezuka's world.
God of Comics provides a challenging understanding of the comics universe that Tezuka created, establshing him as one of the world's foremost cartoonists. The book includes close analysis of Tezuka's lesser-known works, some of which have never been translated into English and fatures over 50 illustrations...."
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 Humour/High Drama, the Two Faces of Adult Comics
God of Comics, Master of Quotations
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
202 pp. About 50 b&w illustrations. Indexed. 20 page Bibliography.
Here's the extended blurb:
"The book chronicles Tezuka's life and works, contextualizing his works both in the cultural climate of the time and the history of Japanese comics. Revered as the 'God of Comics,' Tezuka created the character Astro Boy (Mighty Atom in Japan) and is best known for establishing story comics as the mainstream genre in the Japanese comic book industry.
A major emphasis in Onoda Power's work is Tezuka's use of intertextuality. An artist with broad interests and great intellectual curiosity, Tezuka's works are filled with quotations from other texts and cultural products such as film, opera, and literature. Often these quoted texts and images bring with them a world of meanings, enriching the narrative.
Tezuka also used stock characters and recurrent visual jokes as a way of creating a coherent world that emcompasses all of his works. Readers grow familiar with characters and jokes, developing intimate relationships with Tezuka's world.
God of Comics provides a challenging understanding of the comics universe that Tezuka created, establshing him as one of the world's foremost cartoonists. The book includes close analysis of Tezuka's lesser-known works, some of which have never been translated into English and fatures over 50 illustrations...."
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 Humour/High Drama, the Two Faces of Adult Comics
God of Comics, Master of Quotations
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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