{"id":1266,"date":"2007-01-01T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2020-10-09T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T21:31:03","slug":"buddha-by-osamu-tezuka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/buddha-by-osamu-tezuka\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddha by Osamu Tezuka [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Buddha\"<\/a>Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu
\nBuddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters
\nBuddha, Volume 3: Devadatta
\nBuddha, Volume 4: The Forest of Uruvela
\nBuddha, Volume 5: Deer Park
\nBuddha, Volume 6: Ananda
\nBuddha, Volume 7: Prince Ajatasattu
\nBuddha, Volume 8: Jetavana<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 <\/em>and Persepolis 2<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n

When Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for Maus \u2013 <\/em>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.<\/p>\n

In October 2006, when Gene Luen Yang\u2019s A<\/em>merican Born Chinese<\/em> (see article in this issue)<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Bottom line: What\u2019s not to like about a fabulous story that also happens to be enhanced and embellished with equally amazing pictures?<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]\n

Review<\/strong>: The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, January\/February 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2003-2006 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Buddha1-8\" <\/p>\n

Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu
\nBuddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters
\nBuddha, Volume 3: Devadatta
\nBuddha, Volume 4: The Forest of Uruvela
\nBuddha, Volume 5: Deer Park
\nBuddha, Volume 6: Ananda
\nBuddha, Volume 7: Prince Ajatasattu
\nBuddha, Volume 8: Jetavana<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 <\/em>and Persepolis 2<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n

When Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for Maus \u2013 <\/em>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.<\/p>\n

In October 2006, when Gene Luen Yang\u2019s A<\/em>merican Born Chinese<\/em> (see article in this issue)<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Bottom line: What\u2019s not to like about a fabulous story that also happens to be enhanced and embellished with equally amazing pictures?<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, January\/February 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

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