Frederik Schodt’s Four Decades as a Manga Ambassador to the World

The Osamu Tezuka Story By Ban Toshio; translated by Frederik Schodt Stone Bridge Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-61172-025-9

The translator and interpreter (at right in bottom frame) makes his appearance in Ban’s manga biography of Tezuka. (© Tezuka Productions and Frederik Schodt. Courtesy Stone Bridge Press.)

After the lecture, an audience member stepped forward to show Schodt his copy of the book purchased in 1983 and signed by the author and Tezuka Osamu.