Tag: osamu tezuka
Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: Gantz! Gantz! Gantz!
This week, BEAT'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE covers the JumpToon re-edit of GANTZ, RUN WILD, and the fifth PHOENIX storyline: KARMA.
Interview: Writer Samuel Sattin and Editor David Saylor on UNICO: AWAKENING
In an interview with Sam Sattin and David Saylor, Comics Beat learns more about the Unico: Awakening graphic novel from Scholastic Graphix.
Magnetic Press launches Kickstarter for English edition of TEZUCOMI Osamu Tezuka tribute
Magnetic Press has just launched a Kickstarter to fund the English-translated collection of Tezucomi, a two-volume manga anthology of Osamu Tezuka tributes by all-star international creators
Fantagraphics & Mangasplaining bring a pair of series to print in 2024
Mangasplaining Extra's exclusive digital serialisation of these manga titles will begin August 2023.
ABLAZE announces four new English language translations of Osamu Tezuka titles
Titles will launch in print and digitally in summer 2023 and throughout 2024
INTERVIEW: Samuel Sattin talks UNICO: AWAKENING
The Kickstarter for the reimagining of Osamu Tezuka's classic manga is live now.
NOT JUST BOYS FUN: the vintage rebel heroines of Osamu Tezuka
Romance manga from the '50s that show anything boys can do, girls can do better
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 6/28/21: Why have there been no great women letterers?*
* Actually there have been plenty.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 10/19/20: Is the pamphlet doomed redux
From weekend cons to another director's cut, let's kick this week off!
FIBD Angoulême Day 3 & 4: Attendance was up at a very good show
FIBD #45 is just a memory now but it seems to be a pleasant one for most people who attended. The hanging out and eating wonderful three hour dinners was just fine, as usual,...
Fashion alert: Anna Sui does a line of manga-inspired handbags and wallets
Famed designer Anna Sui recently did an amazing Sailor Moon collab and now she's released a line of manga-infused accessories inspired by Ryoko Ikeda (The rose of Versailles), Osamu Tezuka (Princess Knight, Yunico), Rumiko...
Vertical to make Tezuka backlist available in digital editions
Americans can't get enough Tezuka!
Well sort of. The Japanese comics pioneer was as prolific as he was influential and recently we've recently seen a pretty ambitious attempt at getting a bunch of his works into print here in the US from DMP.
But a lot of primo Tezuka's work was already published here via a series of very attractive volumes published by Vertical which ranged from Black Jack—perhaps his most accessible series and one of the best known—and standlone volumes like Ode to Kirihito. Sadly many of these books are out of print, but not to worry, Vertical is bringing them back in digital form:
