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Books: Oddball Epic.(Apollo's Song)(Brief article)(Book review)
Byline: Malcolm Jones
Manga is such a mystery. We all sort of know about the Japanese comic books with the Betty Boop-ish kids with the big eyes. But there's manga, and then there's Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka, who died in 1989, more or less invented the form as we know it--the man who created an eight-volume graphic biography of the Buddha.
Which brings us to "Apollo's Song," a 541-page graphic novel about a mentally disturbed teenage boy, Shogo, that was published in 1970 but is only now being translated into English. The themes and ...
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