Osamu Tezuka is Japan's leading and most historically important manga artist. In Australia he is best known for his animations Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion which were serialised on TV in the 1960s. This exhibition presents Tezuka as the artistic master through a selection of pen and ink drawings and original colour cover designs for 22 individual manga, or 'comic picture' stories. These represent the expansive scope of Tezuka's oeuvre including children's manga such as Princess Knight, his first work directed at girls and adult manga such as Ludwig van Beethoven on the life of the composer and the Song of Apollo, the artist's last work about life after global nuclear holocaust.
The exhibition is organised by the National Gallery of Victoria in association with Tezuka Productions and curated by Philip Brophy.
