Picture Post

Posted on December 14, 2009. Filed under: anime, Creating, manga, workshops, writing | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I’ve had some wonderful pictures in my mailbox recently. My fellow Tezuka fans have kindly sent me their photos of Tezuka merchandise, including The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, snapped in stores around the world, so I thought I’d share a couple of them. Here’s an amazing Tezuka chess set. Of course, the King/Queen [...]

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Mechatronics and the surgical revolution

Posted on November 22, 2009. Filed under: anime, appearances, events, films, manga | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

An evening at London’s Hunterian Museum showed how far surgical robots have come along the road from science fiction to science fact – and how far they still have to travel.

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Tezuka among the Surgeons: Sci-Fi Surgery Exhibition

Posted on September 8, 2009. Filed under: anime, events, history, Japan, manga | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Osamu Tezuka trained as a doctor and used medicine and surgery in many of his works. An exhibition at the Royal College of Surgeons of England commemorates him and looks at the real-life future of the medical robots he imagined.

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Sci-Fi Surgery: Medical Robots

Posted on July 23, 2009. Filed under: anime, comics, Consuming, events, films, manga | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

A new exhibition in Central London offers free anime/movie screenings and the chance to see real surgical robots.

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