Some of his work has been published here – particularly Astro Boy, his best-known creation in the English-speaking world – but most of it is still a mystery to those of us who read only English. And that doesn’t count his extensive animation work, either – the man was amazingly prolific. Tezuka was also apparently extremely prolific over that period Wikipedia’s page about him claims that his collected works in Japan stretch to over 400 volumes, which collect less than half of the 170,000 pages he created in his lifetime. His position in Japan isn’t comparable to anyone in the US it’s as if Siegel and Shuster, Will Eisner, and Walt Disney were all one person. But I think that means that the Japanese comics industry isn’t quite sure whether to call him a god or their father, so they split the difference. Osamu Tezuka is generally billed as “the godfather of Japanese comics,” which implies a capo di tutti capi and a whole network of manga-kas rubbing each other out that I’m not entirely comfortable with.
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