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About the Book

Since its debut, critics have declared Black Jack as the work which revitalised Osamu Tezuka's inimitable manga career. The many tales of this most popular character - a mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats - were as much a revolution for the genre and a must-read for every manga aficionado. Presented in its original right-to-left format, Volume 15 collects 15 exciting new stories, translated into English for the first time.

About the Author :
Osamu Tezuka was born on November 3, 1928, in Osaka. He grew up in an open-minded family exposed to comics and Walt Disney. As a boy he also had a love for insects, which he would later as a grown-up incorporate into his pen name. Having developed an intense understanding of the preciousness of life from his wartime experience, Osamu Tezuka aimed to become a physician and later earned his degree in medicine, but ultimately chose the profession he loved best: manga artist and animated film writer. Tezuka's manga and animated films had a tremendous impact on the shaping of the psychology of Japan's postwar youth. His work changed the concept of Japanese comics, transforming it into an art form and incorporating a variety of new styles in creating the "story cartoon." Osamu Tezuka lived out his entire life tirelessly pursuing his efforts, passing away at the age of 60 on February 8, 1989. In all, Tezuka produced more than 150,000 pages of graphic storytelling before his death. Posthumously Tezuka's work have won a number of awards in the U.S., including the 2009 Eisner Award given to his series Dororo.

Review :
"What makes Black Jack so great, in addition to Tezuka's artwork and whirlwind narrative velocity (you can either breeze through these volumes or linger on the details), is his bottomless bag of stories. Tezuka effortlessly integrates scores of different surgical procedures into short, sharp tales that eviscerate the codified vicissitudes (especially reticence and duty) of Japanese society with, yes, surgical precision." --Richard Gehr, The Village Voice "Manga master Osamu Tezuka may be best known for Astro Boy, but this installment of Black Jack continues the adventures of a far superior character... With his shock of white hair and rock-star demeanour, Black Jack transfers well to the manga version of the operating room. The book is peppered with enough knowledge to hint at Tezuka's fascination with the frailty of the human body. [I]t means he can avoid the cliches of most manga storylines."--The Guardian (U.K.) "Surely there's nothing in this series more continually striking than the artist's relentless, guaranteed depictions of surgery itself, happy rubber skin always peeled away to show realist meat and bone, minutely detailed organs mended or transplanted, then covered up again in the stuff of effortless napkin doodles... I found even the least of [these stories] fascinating examples of an artist casting his net especially far, secure in his talented hands and firm in his fame--ready to confront any malady, striving to cut away any harm, instrument tips sharp for making flesh whole."--Jog--The Blog "'Iconic' doesn't begin to sum up Black Jack's importance in the world of manga... I see a lot of Tezuka fans reaching for their wallets--not just for this volume alone, but for the whole of Black Jack as it's finally being re-released in the English-language edition it has always deserved. It was, and will be, more than worth the wait. Platinum Award."--Advanced Media Network "The entire book was a fantastic read cover-to-cover that I r


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781935654001
  • Publisher: Vertical Inc.
  • Publisher Imprint: Vertical Inc.
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Weight: 378 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1935654004
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jun 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm


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