Using the unlicensed, black market doctor Black Jack, Osamu Tezuka tells remarkably human and humane stories around small little medical dramas that have as much to do about healing the physical body as the do about the health of a person’s soul. In the new 5th volume of Black Jack stories from Vertical which contains [...]
Tags: Black Jack, Osamu Tezuka
The first volume of Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto contains one of my favorite comic book sequences ever put down on paper. Paul Duncan, a blind musical genius, has just been sent a new robotic manservant, North No. 2. The old man, once one of the best film score composers, cannot stand the idea that he needs [...]
Tags: Astro Boy, Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Pluto
I love that there are still times where a comic page can surprise and delight me. Just this weekend, I found a page among the pages of Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack V2, in the story called “Pinoko’s Challenge.” Note: read this page from the right side to the left since it’s unflipped manga. Pinoko is [...]
Tags: Black Jack, Osamu Tezuka, Pinoko, Vertical
Today would have been Osamu Tezuka’s 80th birthday. Over the past year or two, I’ve started reading more Tezuka– Buddha, Phoenix, Astro Boy, Apollo’s Song and now Black Jack, the first volume of which I just finished over the weekend. The story of a rouge doctor gives Tezuka the chance to create a number of [...]
Tags: Black Jack, Osamu Tezuka