"Infused with humor and history, the epic of Siddhartha is perhaps Osamu Tezuka's crowning acheivement and illustrates why, without irony, Tezuka is referred to as 'The King of Japanese Comics'." -
LA Weekly"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"In handsome volumes designed by Chip Kidd, the Vertical books present Tezuka at his best." -
National Post
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Buddha is an engrossing tale. The armchair philosopher, the devout Buddhist, the casual manga fan - this book satisfies all with its tale of humanism through sequential art, and definitely earns its place on a bibliophile's bookshelf." -
Anime Insider"This is one of the greatest acheivements of the comics medium, a masterpiece by one of the greats." -
Artbomb.net"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 suprising 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