Osamu Tezuka

New York Asian Film Fest 2011: As Nuts As Ever

Astro Boy Attempts Bottling Nostalgia, Not Annoying Parents

Pulp Fictions: Naoki Urasawa's Pluto and 20th Century Boys; Ari Folman and David Polonsky's Waltz With Bashir

Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka Volume One Naoki Urasawa and Osamu Tezuka Viz 20th Century Boys Volume 01 Naoki Urasawa Viz Someone is killing the great robots of Europe. In celebrated manga artist Naoki Urasawa's Pluto, manga god ... More >>

Week in Review: Gosford Park Trap Music

In the week we said "My President is Black" in about fifteen different, ecstatic ways, we also crowned TV on the Radio victorious in the 36th Annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. Poll editor Rob Harvilla let the world know once more that he wasn't Charles Aaron, then instant-messaged away in the after ... More >>

Pulp Fictions: Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack

Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. Black Jack Volumes 1-3 Osamu Tezuka Vertical The dour doctor known as Black Jack, whose medical exploits manga godfather Osamu Tezuka serialized from 1973 to 1983, is arguably the closest Japanese comics ever got to a typica ... More >>

Astro Boy Gets A Dubious Trailer

Pulp Fictions, Manga Edition: Osamu Tezuka's 'Astro Boy' and Taiyo Matsumoto's 'Tekkon Kinkreet: Black & White'

A Year in Comics and Graphic Novels

Criminal masterminds, shoehorn worshippers, President McCain

Republic of Pokémon

Suspended anime: the crazy collision of Japanese and American pop culture

Dharma and Jeff

The Connections: pulp fictionalizing with a real monk and a sci-fi saint

Name That 'Toon

Y2Care

Millennium Movies Get a Second Chance

Night and the Cities

Kids' Movies Grow Up