LifeTimes

Osamu Tezuka, the late Japanese “God of Comics,” is revered as the artist who launched a postwar revolution in the comic book industry here with his sensitivity and unique style.
 

U.S. audiences best know Tezuka from his cartoons Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy) and Jungle Taitei (Kimba the White Lion), two of his numerous works regarded as comic classics. Those and many other Tezuka masterpieces, however, have come under fire by U.S. educators and Japanese grassroots activists alleging blatant racism in his comics — charges being taken seriously within the African American community.