Naoki Urasawa, Author, Osamu Tezuka, Author . Viz $12.99 (200p) ISBN 978-1-4215-1918-0
Any pairing of two masterminds can elicit murmurs of approval—or of apprehension. But all readers can rest assured that in this case, the pairing of seinen manga suspense master Urasawa and legendary cartoonist Tezuka is a very, very good...
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Osamu Tezuka, Author . Vertical $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-932234-43-5
Tezuka, the master of Japanese comics, mixes his own characters with history as deftly as he transfers the most profound, complex emotions onto extremely cartoony characters, and his work defies easy categorization. In Buddha
, originally serialized
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Osamu Tezuka, Author . Vertical $24.95 (822p) ISBN 978-1-932234-64-0
Tezuka earned the nickname "godfather of manga" not just by the length and prolificacy of his career but by the moral commitment he brought to such projects as the award-winning Buddha
. His works deal with the most profound questions of...
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Osamu Tezuka, Author . Vertical $13.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-934287-17-0
The late master manga storyteller Tezuka (Astro Boy
; Phoenix
) returns with the next volume of his 1967–1968 horror/samurai epic, and the dire doings escalate to horrifying levels as young swordsman Hyakkimaru continues his quest to reclaim...
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Osamu Tezuka, Author . Vertical $16.95 (287p) ISBN 978-1-934287-27-9
Manga legend Tezuka fuses medical drama (think a manga House
) with philosophy in this famed series about the adventures of the world's greatest surgeon, the eponymous Black Jack. Created in the '70s, Black Jack
combines the episodic...
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Osamu Tezuka, Author, Frederik L. Schodt, Translator, Digital Chameleon, Other . Dark Horse $9.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-56971-678-6
For those unfamiliar with Tezuka, Japan's manga master, the first English translation of the original Astro Boy series will be a revelation, both for its inventive charm and for its surprising sophistication. In "The Greatest Robot on Earth,&
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Osamu Tezuka, Author, Osamu Tezuka, Illustrator . Viz Communications $22.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-59116-026-7
Chances are readers have never seen anything like this, and not just because it's only now being published in English. Tezuka (1928-1989), known for his manga innovations, considered this series of interlocking stories to be his masterpiece. Viz
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Osamu Tezuka, Author, Osamu Tezuka, Illustrator . Vertical $13.95 (308p) ISBN 978-1-93428716-3
A surprisingly bleak contrast to manga pioneer Tezuka's better known Astro Boy
and Phoenix
, this first of three volumes relates the horrific origin of Hyakkimaru, a teenage hero whose father sacrifices his newborn son's bodily components
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Osamu Tezuka, Author, Kumar Sivasubramanian, Translator . Dark Horse $13.95 (162p) ISBN 978-1-56971-864-3
A still from the German film Metropolis inspired the famed creator of Astro Boy to draw this graphic novel in 1949, and the process was reversed last year, when the graphic novel was made into an animated film. The tale concerns a scientist who's
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Atsushi Kaneko, trans. from the Japanese by Ben Applegate. Fantagraphics, $14.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-68396-932-7
Kaneko (Bambi and Her Pink Gun) outdoes himself with this gonzo sci-fi reimagining of Osamu Tezuka’s classic manga series Dororo. In Kaneko’s hands, the feudal Japanese setting of Tezuka’s original becomes a futuristic dystopia with a Soviet...
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