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Stone Bridge Press Licenses The Osamu Tezuka Story Manga
posted on by Jabulani Blyden
Stone Bridge Press announced on Monday that it will publish Toshio Ban and Tezuka Productions' manga The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime (Tezuka Osamu Monogatari). Stone Bridge Press will release the work, with over 900 pages in production, as a single volume next July.
The graphic-format biography follows the life of Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack), commonly referred to as "the God of Manga" and "the Walt Disney of Japan." Stone Press describes the manga:
Not only will readers get to see how Tezuka got his start and first successes, but they will follow him all the way through his amazing career, and in so doing will see how manga and anime developed from almost nothing in a devastated postwar Japan to the enormous commercial juggernauts they have become today. The story of Tezuka is truly the story of comics and animation media in Japan.
Toshio Ban, who first joined Tezuka Productions as a freelancer in 1974, wrote and drew the book with Tezuka Productions, and they published the book in three volumes in Japan. Frederik L. Schodt, who often worked as Tezuka's English interpreter, provided the English translation for the book.
