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Osamu Tezuka

Japanese cartoonist and animator (1928-1989) · Japan · Artists · Died at 60

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He built the visual grammar that turned Japanese comics into a planet-wide language - cinematic panel flow, the big-eye style, genres that could hold children's adventure and adult philosophy in the same body of work.

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A life in dates

20254.3×The anniversary of their birth, on 3 November.3 November 2025, 4.3 times the usual readers on 3 November 2025See the moment2014Best foreign work published in SpainAward2002Will Eisner Hall of FameAward1990Winsor McCay AwardAward1989Died9 February 19891987“The children face problems such as violence, abuse, suicide etc. that medicine can not heal. It will never help these children psychologically and be his support ...?”In their wordsFrom the intervention to the fifteenth national conference on school health and safety in schools , 1987; quoted in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: A

Asahi PrizeAward1980Inkpot AwardAward1979“When Superman and Batman came to Japan, it was right after the war, right? Together with the G.I.s. In other words, our height and theirs was completely different.”In their words

“Ha ha ha. But at the time, everyone in Superman looked like an alien from another planet. Compared with that, Mickey Mouse was just an animal, and so was easier to use.”In their words

Iwaya Sazanami AwardAward1978“I conceived this story [ MW ] with the intention of presenting readers a picaresque drama that distort the traditional atmosphere of my stories leave them stunned.”In their wordsApril 1978From the Afterword to April 1978 MW , vol. 3, translation by Francesco Nicodemus, Hazard Editions, Milan, 2005, p. 193.

“Now I feel a great regret. My style inadequate forces me to complete the work without being able ...”In their wordsApril 1978From the Afterword to April 1978 MW , vol. 3, translation by Francesco Nicodemus, Hazard Editions, Milan, 2005, p. 193.

1966“The new readers have mentality, fashions, feelings completely different from those of previous readers. Should I draw comics following my first readers in their growth?”In their wordsFrom My Diary manga , 1966; quoted in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: A Manga Biography , vol. 3, translated by Marta Fogato, Coconino Press,

1928Born3 November 1928

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  1. The children face problems such as violence, abuse, suicide etc. that medicine can not heal. It will never help these children psychologically and be his support ...?

    1987, From the intervention to the fifteenth national conference on school health and safety in schools , 1987; quoted in AA.VV., Osamu Tezuka: A, Own words

  2. When Superman and Batman came to Japan, it was right after the war, right? Together with the G.I.s. In other words, our height and theirs was completely different.

    1979, Own words

  3. Ha ha ha. But at the time, everyone in Superman looked like an alien from another planet. Compared with that, Mickey Mouse was just an animal, and so was easier to use.

    1979, Own words

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Awards

Best foreign work published in Spain2014
Will Eisner Hall of Fame2002
Winsor McCay Award1990
Asahi Prize1987
Inkpot Award1980
Iwaya Sazanami Award1979
Order of the Sacred Treasure
Shogakukan Manga Award
Kodansha Manga Award
Eisner Award

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About this person

Osamu Tezuka watched Princess Iron Fan as a boy and decided to remake what pictures could do on a page. In 1947 he published New Treasure Island and set off what became known as the manga revolution in Japan. Over four decades he created Astro Boy, Princess Knight, Kimba the White Lion, then turned toward darker, denser terrain with Black Jack, Phoenix, and Buddha - each winning awards, each redefining what the medium could carry. He died of stomach cancer in February 1989 with the final chapters of Phoenix still unfinished and several animations mid-production. A museum in Takarazuka now holds the arc of his life; the work itself holds half the visual DNA of modern manga.

Country
Japan
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1928 to 1989 · aged 60

In common with Osamu

Tetsuko KuroyanagiAlso in Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad (1962)Chieko BaishōAlso in The Fantastic Adventures of Unico (1981)Osami NabeAlso in Cleopatra: Queen of Sex (1970)Shuntarō TanikawaAlso in The Phoenix (1978)Norio WakamotoAlso in Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (1984)Chikao ŌtsukaAlso in Phoenix 2772 (1980)

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