J-POP Manga has released all the details for the imminent arrival of Guide to the Mangacollection of advice edited by Osamu Tezuka. The single volume will be available for purchase in all comic shops, bookstores and online stores starting from May 29th at the recommended retail price of €14.00.
Let’s find out all the details together thanks to the press release released by the publishing house.
J-POP Manga presents Guide to Osamu Tezuka’s Manga
The first Italian edition of the manual of the god of manga on which generations and generations of manga artists were trained
“Would you like to draw a manga?”
Perhaps not everyone knows that the legendary Osamu Tezuka, the most famous manga artist in history, so much so that he is considered the “god” or “father” of Japanese comics, has written a manual dedicated to all those who, as non-professionals, want to launch themselves into the creation of a manga! A cult text on which generations and generations of mangaka have been trained and a fundamental reading for anyone who wants to approach the art of Japanese comics today. It arrives for the first time in Italian edition branded J-POP Manga the manual Guide to the Manga Of Osamu Tezuka. The volume will be available in bookstores, comic shops and in all online stores starting from May 29th.
With practical advice and suggestions on how to develop a story and move from pencil scribbles to a structured table, chapter after chapter, Osamu Tezuka reveals his techniques and the rules of a language he helped create. Published in Japan in 1977, the Guide to the Manga it is a fundamental text studied by generations of mangaka and a precious read also for enthusiasts and aspiring authors of today.
Osamu Tezuka he is the creator of many of the visual and linguistic styles that still characterize manga today and the author of a boundless production of works of all genres. He created some of the most famous characters of all time including Kimba the White Lion, The Sapphire Princess, Blackjack And Astro Boy. Most of his works are published in Italy by J-POP Manga in the series Osamushi Collection.
The manual Guide to the Manga it is not aimed at specialists in the sector, but as Tezuka specifies in the preface of the book, it is conceived “with the aim of bringing hundreds, thousands of people who have never drawn comics to try their hand at the business with the help of a single guide”. The author continues: “And if this will be for them a small oasis in the arid desert of modern life that stimulates them not only to draw, but also to focus their attention on what they want to say and to seek dialogue through drawing, there will be no more satisfaction. big for me”.
Explicitly cited by Junji Ito in his autobiographical essay Where horror is born and in the works of other great contemporary authors including Keigo Shinzo (Strays, Hirayasumi), Guide to the Manga Of Osamu Tezuka it is an essential work for those who love the manga world and want to discover the secrets of the profession of one of the first and greatest manga artists in history.
Guide to the Manga
by Osamu Tezuka
Single volume
Format – 15×21 – Paperback. With Overload.
Pages – 220, B/W
Price – €14.00
Source: J-POP Manga
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