1.0BookDragonhttps://apa.si.edu/bookdragonSmithsonian Asian Pacific American Centerhttps://apa.si.edu/bookdragon/author/riemert/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="k9sgEw5424"><a href="https://apa.si.edu/bookdragon/buddha-by-osamu-tezuka/">Buddha by Osamu Tezuka [in Bloomsbury Review]</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://apa.si.edu/bookdragon/buddha-by-osamu-tezuka/embed/#?secret=k9sgEw5424" width="600" height="338" title="“Buddha by Osamu Tezuka [in Bloomsbury Review]” — BookDragon" data-secret="k9sgEw5424" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://apa.si.edu/bookdragon/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2007/01/Buddha.jpg500401Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters Buddha, Volume 3: Devadatta Buddha, Volume 4: The Forest of Uruvela Buddha, Volume 5: Deer Park Buddha, Volume 6: Ananda Buddha, Volume 7: Prince Ajatasattu Buddha, Volume 8: Jetavana Graphic novels are big news these days. If you’re a fairly avid reader, you can’t help but notice that stories with pictures are not just for the kids anymore. Even if you’re not a pop-culture connoisseur (which I do not claim to be), you can’t have missed the graphic novels popping up on the best-seller lists. Think Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Persepolis 2, both of which topped numerous lists, bringing to life her unforgettable memories about growing up in post-revolution Iran in the late 1970s and 1980s. Once considered a specialized niche-genre, graphic novels have undoubtedly moved squarely into the mainstream over the last 10 to 15 years. When Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for Maus – a story of the Holocaust made that much more visceral, that much more undeniable, with Spiegelman’s haunting visualization – the genre got its can’t-be-ignored nod of mainstream (maybe even high-brow?) approval. In October 2006, when Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese (see article in this issue) became the first-ever graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award in the prestigious honor’s 57-year history, the event set off a virulent chain of detractors and many more supporters slugging it out as to whether graphic novels are NBA-worthy. The supporters clearly won, thank goodness. Bottom line: What’s not to like about a fabulous story that also happens to be enhanced and embellished with equally amazing pictures? So if you’re new to the genre, and you’re willing to give the graphic novel a try, you might as well go directly to the Master, the late Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), considered to be the godfather of manga, the Japanese version of the graphic novel. “There’s a reason why the Japanese call [him] the God of Comics,” says Gene Yang. “He can pull off such a range of emotion, and he weaves plots that really hook you in. All with this simple, big-eyed art style.” (Purists will argue until they’re blue in the face about the true definitions of manga, graphic novels, comics, comic books, comics narratives, Eastern/Western/European styles and formats, and so on, but for us laypeople, we’ll stay with “manga” and “graphic novels” as virtually interchangeable terms to describe the perfect-balance-of-pictures-and-words category.) ...[click here for more] Review: The Bloomsbury Review, January/February 2007 Readers: Young Adult, Adult Published: 2003-2006 (United States)