"Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) is the single most important
figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career,
Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animation
films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a Ph.D. in medicine.
Along with creating the character Astro Boy (Mighty Atom
in Japan), he is best known for establishing story comics as the mainstream
genre in the Japanese comic book industry, creating narratives with
cinematic flow and complex characters. This style influenced all subsequent
Japanese output. God of Comics chronicles Tezuka's life and works,
placing his creations both in the cultural climate and in the history of
Japanese comics." -University Press of Mississippi