Osamu Tezuka’s ninja

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It’s ComiCon week here in SoCal, so I’ll be posting a lot of manga and comics stuff over the next few days. We’ll start things with the king – the emperor? – the ultimate genius?  Hmm, I just don’t have the art theory vocabulary to do Osamu Tezuka justice, so I won’t even try.

So here’s a cover and splash page from his 1960 manga Ore wa Sarutobi da! (I Am Sarutobi!), a re-imagining of shinobi kid’s hero Sarutobi Sasuke:

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Special thanks to Eddie Mort!