{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"BookDragon","provider_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon","author_name":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","author_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/author\/riemert\/","title":"Buddha by Osamu Tezuka [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"K8uCy5TREq\"><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=K8uCy5TREq\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Buddha by Osamu Tezuka [in Bloomsbury Review]&#8221; &#8212; BookDragon\" data-secret=\"K8uCy5TREq\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!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);\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/01\/Buddha.jpg","thumbnail_width":500,"thumbnail_height":401,"description":"Buddha, 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\u2019re a fairly avid reader, you can\u2019t help but notice that stories with pictures are not just for the kids anymore. Even if you\u2019re not a pop-culture connoisseur (which I do not claim to be), you can\u2019t have missed the graphic novels popping up on the best-seller lists. Think Marjane Satrapi\u2019s 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 \u2013 a story of the Holocaust made that much more visceral, that much more undeniable, with Spiegelman\u2019s haunting visualization \u2013 the genre got its can\u2019t-be-ignored nod of mainstream (maybe even high-brow?) approval.  In October 2006, when Gene Luen Yang\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s not to like about a fabulous story that also happens to be enhanced and embellished with equally amazing pictures?  So if you\u2019re new to the genre, and you\u2019re 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. \u201cThere\u2019s a reason why the Japanese call [him] the God of Comics,\u201d says Gene Yang. \u201cHe 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.\u201d (Purists will argue until they\u2019re 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\u2019ll stay with \u201cmanga\u201d and \u201cgraphic novels\u201d 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)"}