Talkin' Osamu Tezuka at The Japan Society of New York this Thursday, 11/7


Join me and NYC-based comic artist Katie Skelly for "The Life & Works of Osamu Tezuka" this Thursday, Nov. 7, at The Japan Society of New York.  Next year marks the 25th Anniversary of Tezuka's death. Learn why he is still the consecrated "God of manga and anime."

Wine and Japanese hors d'oeuvres will be served. Copies of my dear friend Helen McCarthy's The Art of Osamu Tezuka, Ryan Holmberg's The Mysterious Underground Men (by Tezuka), Skelly's Nurse Nurse, and Japanamerica will be raffled off.  Copies of Japanamerica will also be on sale, and a book-signing will follow.


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