Tezuka, Osamu

Ei)i Otsuka, Atomu no meidai Tezuka Asamu to sengo manga no shudai [Atom s Proposition Tezuka Osamu and the Subject of the Postwar Manga] (Tokyo Tokuma Sho-ten, 2003), 246. 

Tezuka, "The Birth of Astro Boy," in Astro Boy, 18 vols. (San Francisco Last Gasp Press, 2003 first published in 1975), 1, passim. "Tezuka Osamu," Japan Zone Originals, http //www.japanzone.com/modern/tezuka osamu.shtml (accessed May 5, 2009). 

Schodt, Manga Manga Shelly Esaak, "Artists in 60 seconds Tezuka Osamu, http //arthistory.about.eom/od/namesoo/p/osamu.htm (accessed August 8, 2009). 

Tezuka, Osamu. Boku no manga jinsei [My Cartoonist Life]. Tokyo Iwanami Shoten, 1997. 

Cover of Mighty Atom 1 (IW Enterprises, 1963 reprint). Created by Osamu Tezuka—the artist who virtually invented the Japanese manga industry—Mighty Atom (a.k.a. Astro Boy in the United States) reflected the concerns of post-World War 11 Japan, including anxieties over the atom. 

Osamu Tezuka, Baku no manga jinsei [My Cartoonist Life] (Tokyo Iwanami Sho-fen, 1997), 63-67. Ibid., 64-65. A nice summary of his career can be found in Gravett, Manga, chap. 3. 

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