漫画家手塚治虫未發表作品曝光

Recently the Mainichi News on-line reported the following:　

漫画家の手塚治虫さん（１９２８〜８９年）が終戦直後の１０代後半に描いた未発表作品が、２日までに見つかった。手塚さんから譲り受けた中学時代の同級生が６０年以上保管していた。今春、東京都内の古書店に出品されたのを手塚プロダクションが入手し、手塚さんの作品と確認した。

　作品は、戦争が終わり漫画を描ける自由を手にした解放感にあふれている。闇市や食糧不足など当時の社会問題を題材に風刺も効かせている。手塚プロは「存在すら知らなかった。デビュー直前に描いた可能性もあり、漫画史的に極めて貴重な資料だ」としている。

(試譯文)

The unpublished work of the cartoonist Mr. Osamu Tezuka (1928 - 1989) drew at the late teens immediately after the end of the WWII was found on the 2nd. The classmate of his junior high school days who inherited it from Mr. Tezuka had kept it for over 60 years. The Tezuka production which was an antiquarian bookshop in Tokyo that had obtained it and would exhibit it this spring had confirmed it was Mr. Tezuka's work.

The work was full of freedom feeling, as the war had ended and there was freedom that comics could be drawn freely. Satire was also used on the topic of social problems seen in those days, such as the black market and food shortage. The Tezuka Pro supposed that "even its existence was not known; it may have drawn just before his debut; they are very precious data in the comic history".

It is nice to hear that Mr. Tesuka’s earlier work is discovered. It will enrich our understanding of this cartoonist.