Osamu Tezuka has often been called the Walt Disney of Japan, but he was far more than that. Tezuka was Disney, Stan Lee, Alan Moore, Tim Burton and Carl Sagan, all rolled into one incredibly prolific package and he changed the face of Japanese culture forever. This lavishly packaged book reveals what made a shy doctor one of the key figures of 20th Century pop culture. Packed with stunning, never-before-seen images, it tells the story of Tezukas amazingly prolific life, and connects it to his manga and anime work. Tezuka created hundreds of characters, many known worldwide, drew over 150,000 pages of art and scripted dozens of movies; he created graphic biographies of Jesus, and the Buddha yet a huge amount remains untranslated into English. The book is accompanied by a DVD with a fly-on-the-wall documentary, "The Secrets of Creation", made in 1986 and never before translated or shown in the West.
- ISBN10 1905814666
- ISBN13 9781905814664
- Publish Date 19 October 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 October 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
- Imprint Ilex
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English