Tezuka! God of Manga Documentary Director Says Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix Deserves More Recognition From Western Manga Readers

Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix deserves a much larger audience among Western manga readers, according to Jason Andrew Cohn, director of the upcoming documentary Tezuka! God of Manga. During a roundtable interview with The Beat, Cohn described the ambitious manga as one of Tezuka’s most important works and argued that it should be essential reading for anyone interested in comics. Cohn explained that only a small selection of Tezuka’s stories have become widely recognized in English-speaking countries. Astro Boy and Kimba the…