| 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 chronicles Tezuka's life and
works, placing his creations both in the cultural climate and in the
history of Japanese comics. The book emphasizes Tezuka's use of
intertextuality. His works are filled with quotations from other texts
and cultural products, such as film, theater, 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
encompasses all of his works. |
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