| The Tezuka Osamu Story is out. [message #327040] |
Thu, 25 August 2016 16:14  |
sellers
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Hi typers and readers,
One of my other friends on a mailing list pointed
this out to me.
This is a manga and it is about the creator of Astro Boy
so I posted to raam as well as ram.
I have ordered a copy from Amazon and hope to
post a few lines about once I have it in hand but I
figured that if others know about it they might
be interested in this really big 1000 page manga.
bliss
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| Re: The Tezuka Osamu Story is out. [message #327206 is a reply to message #327040] |
Sat, 27 August 2016 20:47  |
Kenneth M. Lin
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"Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:npnjif$nmf$1@dont-email.me...
Hi typers and readers,
One of my other friends on a mailing list pointed
this out to me.
This is a manga and it is about the creator of Astro Boy
so I posted to raam as well as ram.
I have ordered a copy from Amazon and hope to
post a few lines about once I have it in hand but I
figured that if others know about it they might
be interested in this really big 1000 page manga.
bliss
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1,000 pages for under $20? I didn't recognize the artist from the cover
image but this ought to be a great book.
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| Re: The Tezuka Osamu Story is out. [message #327207 is a reply to message #327206] |
Sat, 27 August 2016 21:43 |
sellers
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On 08/27/2016 05:47 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:
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> "Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:npnjif$nmf$1@dont-email.me...
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> Hi typers and readers,
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> One of my other friends on a mailing list pointed
> this out to me.
> This is a manga and it is about the creator of Astro Boy
> so I posted to raam as well as ram.
>
> I have ordered a copy from Amazon and hope to
> post a few lines about once I have it in hand but I
> figured that if others know about it they might
> be interested in this really big 1000 page manga.
>
> bliss
>
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> 1,000 pages for under $20? I didn't recognize the artist from the cover
> image but this ought to be a great book.
Here is more information on the book and the artist.
< http://www.iexaminer.org/2016/08/god-of-manga-osamu-tezuka-a -multi-faceted-artist/>
I got to look at the outside of the book earlier today
at the Kinokuniya Manga shop at Webster and Geary. It is the
most massive single manga volume I have ever seen(well maybe
my experience of big manga in large volumes is limited). But it
larger than the Showa volumes and thicker.
bliss
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| Re: The Tezuka Osamu Story is out. [message #327565 is a reply to message #327207] |
Thu, 01 September 2016 13:48 |
Kenneth M. Lin
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"Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:nptfkk$778$1@dont-email.me...
On 08/27/2016 05:47 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:
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> "Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:npnjif$nmf$1@dont-email.me...
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> Hi typers and readers,
>
> One of my other friends on a mailing list pointed
> this out to me.
> This is a manga and it is about the creator of Astro Boy
> so I posted to raam as well as ram.
>
> I have ordered a copy from Amazon and hope to
> post a few lines about once I have it in hand but I
> figured that if others know about it they might
> be interested in this really big 1000 page manga.
>
> bliss
>
>>>>
>
> 1,000 pages for under $20? I didn't recognize the artist from the cover
> image but this ought to be a great book.
Here is more information on the book and the artist.
< http://www.iexaminer.org/2016/08/god-of-manga-osamu-tezuka-a -multi-faceted-artist/>
I got to look at the outside of the book earlier today
at the Kinokuniya Manga shop at Webster and Geary. It is the
most massive single manga volume I have ever seen(well maybe
my experience of big manga in large volumes is limited). But it
larger than the Showa volumes and thicker.
bliss
>>>> >>>>>>
I think this Schodt guy is local to the Bay Area.
http://www.piedmontcenterforthearts.org/calendar
Look at August 27th. I got a more detailed email about his appearance but I
was out of town last week and totally missed it.
Nicolas Bearde Jazz, Fred Schodt Book Launch, Instrument Petting zoo,
Auditions, & Printmakers' Exhibit
Saturday, Aug. 27 -- Fred Schodt Book Launch
Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime
Saturday, August 27, 4 p.m
Piedmont author Frederik Schodt will have a book launching event to
introduce a newly published book, The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga
and Anime, for which he wrote the English translation.
The afternoon event will include a visual presentation on the screen, and
live music during the reception.
Free and open to the Public!
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| Re: The Tezuka Osamu Story is out. [message #327571 is a reply to message #327207] |
Thu, 01 September 2016 13:58 |
Kenneth M. Lin
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"Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:nptfkk$778$1@dont-email.me...
On 08/27/2016 05:47 PM, Kenneth M. Lin wrote:
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> "Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:npnjif$nmf$1@dont-email.me...
>
> Hi typers and readers,
>
> One of my other friends on a mailing list pointed
> this out to me.
> This is a manga and it is about the creator of Astro Boy
> so I posted to raam as well as ram.
>
> I have ordered a copy from Amazon and hope to
> post a few lines about once I have it in hand but I
> figured that if others know about it they might
> be interested in this really big 1000 page manga.
>
> bliss
>
>>>>
>
> 1,000 pages for under $20? I didn't recognize the artist from the cover
> image but this ought to be a great book.
Here is more information on the book and the artist.
< http://www.iexaminer.org/2016/08/god-of-manga-osamu-tezuka-a -multi-faceted-artist/>
I got to look at the outside of the book earlier today
at the Kinokuniya Manga shop at Webster and Geary. It is the
most massive single manga volume I have ever seen(well maybe
my experience of big manga in large volumes is limited). But it
larger than the Showa volumes and thicker.
bliss
>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I personal own over 50 volumes of Tezuka's work. Although he passed away in
1989, his stuff holds up extremely well. I especially love the future he
envisioned in Tetsuwan Atomu (from 1950s) and The Phoenix. I often wonder
what new story ideas he could have come up with if he was introduced to the
Internet and advances in computer technologies.
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| Re: The Tezuka Osamu Story is out. [message #328056 is a reply to message #327040] |
Wed, 07 September 2016 19:18 |
sellers
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On 08/25/2016 01:14 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Hi typers and readers,
>
> One of my other friends on a mailing list pointed
> this out to me.
> This is a manga and it is about the creator of Astro Boy
> so I posted to raam as well as ram.
>
> I have ordered a copy from Amazon and hope to
> post a few lines about once I have it in hand but I
> figured that if others know about it they might
> be interested in this really big 1000 page manga.
>
> bliss
Well the massive volume arrived earlier today and I have
read a 5th of the book already. The translation is good of course
being by Frederik L.Schodt who started translating Tezuka's work
in the 1970s. The art is excellent using lots of Tezuka's earlier
efforts and detailing his genius level artistic talent and his
extraordinary intellect. The artist who did the work was in charge
of Tezuka Production's work, Toshio Ban.
I have arrived at the section where Japan has surrendered to
the allies and when hope re-enters Tezuka's life and at several earlier
points it made me cry. This for me is the sin qua non of an excellent
manga. Throughout Tezuka's school years he drew and drew at least
3000 pages of manga right on through the war years despite official
condemnation of such work and discouragement from his Military Drill
Sargent.
We also get to see the civilian privation of WW II as the
food rations are cut and air raids drive city dwellers into the
countryside. Grave of the Fireflies it is not but everything but
the ashes of soldiers and cities were in short supply.
I mentioned last year that in the 4 volumes of Show:A History
of Japan Mizuki uses "Nozumi Otoku" aka "Rat Man" a character from later
work in Kitaro to explicate his creator's times. Here a character
"Shunsaku Ban" or "Mustachio", created in elementary school and used
in later stories is the narrator. Rat Man does not appear until page
93 of Showa but Mustachio is in at the beginning of the story. Mustachio
looks a little like the character trademark for Monopoly.
In one manga or another(Genshiken ?) I have read that there are
manga artists who must draw as Oguie in Genshiken and Osamu Tezuka was
of that class as he drew and drew then drew some more, while still a
child.
More about this later after I absorb about another 800 pages
taking my breaks with a SFP Library volume the intensively collected
"Superman: a 75 year celebration". Superman hit the news stands about
the time I was a year old so Clark Kent is my kohai. Some of these
strips and stories I had read earlier on my way thru elementary and
HS. Some I had missed and there are a few at the beginning which
only serve to illustrate how badly the creators drew.
Tezuka's art was vastly superior. Toshio Ban learned at
the elbow of Tezuka and his art is consistent with Tezuka's.
bliss
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| Re: The Tezuka Osamu Story is out. [message #328302 is a reply to message #327040] |
Thu, 08 September 2016 22:07 |
sellers
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On 08/25/2016 01:14 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Hi typers and readers,
>
> One of my other friends on a mailing list pointed
> this out to me.
> This is a manga and it is about the creator of Astro Boy
> so I posted to raam as well as ram.
>
> I have ordered a copy from Amazon and hope to
> post a few lines about once I have it in hand but I
> figured that if others know about it they might
> be interested in this really big 1000 page manga.
>
> bliss
First half of the report to rec.arts.manga.
> Well the massive volume arrived earlier today and I have
> read a 5th of the book already. The translation is good of course
> being by Frederik L.Schodt who started translating Tezuka's work
> in the 1970s. The art is excellent using lots of Tezuka's earlier
> efforts and detailing his genius level artistic talent and his
> extraordinary intellect. The artist who did the work was in charge
> of Tezuka Production's work, Toshio Ban.
>
> I have arrived at the section where Japan has surrendered to
> the allies and when hope re-enters Tezuka's life and at several earlier
> points it made me cry. This for me is the sin qua non of an excellent
> manga. Throughout Tezuka's school years he drew and drew at least
> 3000 pages of manga right on through the war years despite official
> condemnation of such work and discouragement from his Military Drill
> Sargent.
> We also get to see the civilian privation of WW II as the
> food rations are cut and air raids drive city dwellers into the
> countryside. Grave of the Fireflies it is not but everything but
> the ashes of soldiers and cities were in short supply.
>
> I mentioned last year that in the 4 volumes of Show:A History
> of Japan Mizuki uses "Nozumi Otoku" aka "Rat Man" a character from later
> work in Kitaro to explicate his creator's times. Here a character
> "Shunsaku Ban" or "Mustachio", created in elementary school and used
> in later stories is the narrator. Rat Man does not appear until page
> 93 of Showa but Mustachio is in at the beginning of the story. Mustachio
> looks a little like the character trademark for Monopoly.
>
> In one manga or another(Genshiken ?) I have read that there are
> manga artists who must draw as Oguie in Genshiken and Osamu Tezuka was
> of that class as he drew and drew then drew some more, while still a
> child.
Surprised that I finished the book today. It was a joyous effort. It
is over 900 pages but the biography is over in 874 pages
then we have appendices in English and in Japanese.
I have read other reviews of this book most of which seem to
think that it concentrates too much on Tezuka's strenuous work habits
but I have to think that these reviews fail to understand the creative
power that welled up within the "God of Manga and Anime".
Tezuka had serious ambitions toward animation from his early
years creating flip-books. He learned from ever sources and tried to
discard nothing of value.
He customarily worked on multiple stories for multiple magazines
and newspapers. He was lucky to get 2 hours per night of sleep and yet
he continued until he was 60 when stomach cancer cut him down. In the
interval he finished Medical School and wrote a dissertation on small
animal in ponds. He also produced enough manga to fill a library.
Toward the end of his life his earlier works filled 300 volumes in
a special edition but while he had to redraw some of the work to replace
lost pages he was constantly writing new material at the same time.
But he did work hard at manga because by doing so he not only
was able to provide for his family but to provide funds to produce
anime. Anime was truly the love of his life and his work in both manga
and anime brought him every award an artist could hope for.
It might have been nice if he had taken better care of himself
or if someone else had managed to take better care of him but he was
a man determined to draw and write.
He traveled all over the world to do research and to attend
animation festivals. He was born some years after Shigero Mizuki and
had little in his early life to match the difficulties and privation
the Mura(Mizuki's family name) family was suffering in the run up to
the Pacific War (WW II). Tezuka was too young to be drafted and sent
to fight. From his earliest days he studied hard and drew endlessly.
Even his teachers recognized his talent aside from a military drill
instructor.
When on August 15, 1945 he learned that the war was over he
was immensely happy.
After another year his father who had acquired malaria was
returned to Japan for treatment and convalescence. His first published
manga were for children but he went on from there to help create
manga for every market, children, university students and adults.
Ideas seem to bubble up from within him practically on
demand. He was one of the originators of the artist with assistants
system and not the first to pursue animation but the first Japanese
animator to get a weekly TV series with Tetsuwan Atomu which is commonly
translated as Mighty Atom but the drawing of the character
were from an earlier series Ambassador Atom where the diminutive
robot is just that a cold and heartless intellect housed in a
body of steel. Tetsuwan by the way means Iron Arm. In
Mighty Atom aka Astro Boy the robot is given a heart, the love
of a robot father and mother as well as a human creator who
cares for his development.
When he went into TV production he originated a system
of multiple assistants and banks of completed drawings from which
portions might be reused in further productions. The real
problem with a weekly show turned out not to be artists and
animators but the need for new material as TV uses up stories
nearly as fast as they can be written. Besides the weekly
TV series he produced a great deal of theatrical animation
based on his stories and manga. He also did experimental
animations of no particular commercial value but which won
awards sometimes year after year.
I was a bit surprised to learn that Black Jack was
a later creation. After his late 50s he developed a tremor
that slowed down his drawing but he was full of plans for more
shows up until he was suddenly shockingly dead at 60 years of
age right about the time the Showa Emperor died as well.
One thing this book makes clear is that manga and
animation in Tezuka's day demanded lots of hard work and
pain. Tezukza never shied away from hard work and it took
a lot of pain to make him seek treatment.
Why did he work so hard? Because he could not do
anything else to satisfy his creative urges.
If you want to know how Japanese animations which
many love are created then you need to read this book.
Bobbie Sellers
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