This year’s New York Asian Film Festival was graced with the North American premiere of a film almost three decades in the making. The critically acclaimed and three-time Eisner Award winning manga, ...

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 ...

Looking in each of the four primary directions a young man faces a choice: an elderly man, a scabrous woman, a corpse or a monk. Rejecting old age, disease and death, the man, Siddhartha, chooses the ...

Known worldwide as the godfather of both anime and manga, Osamu Tezuka’s cultural influence can never be over-stated. As pioneering as Walt Disney, and as prolific as Jack Kirby, his choices as a ...

Osamu Tezuka is widely regarded as "the godfather of manga" due to his work on beloved titles like Astro Boy and Buddha. Tezuka's work has even inspired modern reimaginings, like the recent graphic ...

Comic books depicting religious stories have been a part of mainstream Eastern cultures for some time. The Mahabharata comic series has provided Indian kids with imagination-testing storylines and ...

Hot on the heels of the release of legendary manga-ka Osamu Tezuka’s Apollo Song over the summer, Vertical continues to expand Tezuka’s profile in America. Known as the “godfather of manga,” Tezuka ...