“Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures”

— Osamu Tezuka

As quoted in Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1441185755 p. 5

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Japanese cartoonist and animator 1928–1989

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