| “Tezuka…manages
to cover all manner of emotion and story with wit and pulp instincts
that make
these mammoth volumes page-turners.” –Washington
Post
“Siddhartha’s contemplative life becomes a
swash-buckling adventure.” –Newsday
“In handsome volumes designed by Chip Kidd, the
Vertical books present Tezuka at his best.”
–National Post
“Buddha is a work of exceptional artistic
beauty; Tezuka was at the top of his game here, balancing stylized
character concepts against finely detailed backdrops.”
–Bookslut
“Ten out of f***ing ten!” –Diamond
Comics Previews
“This is one of the great achievements of the comics
medium,
a masterpiece by one of the greats.” –Artbomb.net
“(Tezuka’s) stunning work is inspiring and
deeply sobering.” –NY
Press
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“I
have been, and continue to be an ardent admirer of Osamu Tezuka,
so I am especially pleased to have a chance to study his brilliant
storytelling and narrative art that rises above the casual style
of Tezuka’s imitators.”
–The late Will Eisner, author of A Contract With God
“Buddha stands as the opus of Japan's greatest
cartoonist, and a high watermark for the medium. Tremendously
inspiring, overwhelming, breathtaking, etc. etc... I wish it could
go on forever.” –Craig Thompson,
author of Blankets
“Osamu Tezuka invented a whole new grammar of comics storytelling
and his place in the history of Japanese comics is about as central
as Siddhartha's place in the history of Buddhism.” –Art
Spiegelman, author of Maus
“The books are all I’d hoped they’d be. Tezuka’s
dramatic skills make the pages fly by... Tezuka’s drawings
add to the impact of the work; he places his lively, cartoony
figures in beautifully rendered landscapes.”
–Chester Brown, author of Louis
Riel
“Exciting, humanly moving, revealing, it makes the Buddha's
achievement much more real than just reciting the traditional
facts. I read each volume without putting it down! Sadhu! Sadhu!
Sadhu! Three times excellent!”
–Tenzin Robert Thurman
“Tezuka’s most ambitious and succesful work available
in English to date.” –Comics
Journal
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“There’s
more to Buddha than Pali Canon-meets-Spiderman.”
–Dharma Life
“Buddha is one of Tezuka's true masterpieces. We're
lucky to have this excellent new edition in English.”
–Scott McCloud, author of Understanding
Comics
“With quality like what Buddha gives us, the adult
manga audience better grow as Tezuka's vision of the Buddha spreads
(literally) across the spines of the eight volumes of this series.”
–Franz Metcalf, author of What
Would Buddha Do?
“Those expecting to see something along the lines of one
of those dumbass religious comic books full of bland images and
whiter than white characters will be sorely disappointed. This
is a rough, often sexy book full of daring reinterpretations of
the traditional Buddhist tales.”
–Brad Warner, author of Hardcore
Zen
“In Tezuka’s world, the exquisite collapses into the
goofy in a New York minute, the goofy into the melodramatic, the
melodramatic into the brutal, and the brutal into the sincerely
touching. The surprising result is a work wholly unique and downright
fun.” –Time Out NY
“Tezuka’s Buddha is a striking and memorable
confluence of ancient wisdom and contemporary popular art.”
–Yoga Journal
“Infused with humor and history, the epic of Siddhartha
is perhaps Osamu Tezuka’s crowning achievement and illustrates
why, without irony, Tezuka is referred to as ‘The King of
Japanese Comics’.” –LA
Weekly
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