Special treat: The doctor is in

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

Vertical has posted a sample chapter of Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack on their site. You may remember that Viz published two volumes of stories back in the day; Vertical is doing it the Vertical way, which means hefty, 300-page volumes, high production standards, and the stories arranged in the order Tezuka specified for the Japanese deluxe edition. So check out the sneak peek and see if it’s just what the doctor ordered.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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5 Responses to Special treat: The doctor is in

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  2. Eoin says:
    July 7, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    Really engaging stuff from Tezuka. Loving the artwork as usual. Suprised to hear the BJ books are going to be 300 pages each… Christ, Tezuka sure done a lot on him.

  3. John T says:
    July 7, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    That link seems funky, too.

  4. Brigid says:
    July 7, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Fixed it. The internets are not on my side today.

  5. Sara says:
    July 9, 2008 at 11:46 pm

    Hey Brigid…

    I also found this link funky

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