Acclaimed anime director and manga artist Rintaro’s My Life in 24 Frames Per Second is a graphic memoir about growing up in post-WWII Japan and a lively documentation of the beginning of the Japanese anime industry in the 1960s. Shigeyuki Hayashi, aka Rintaro, details his childhood fascination with cinema (influenced by his father), his first jobs in animation, and the historic moment he was hired by the great Osamu Tezuka—“the God of Manga”—to join Tezuka’s seminal studio Mushi Productions and produce Astro Boy, the popular anime adaptation that established the industry as we know it today.
In this 13-page excerpt, Rintaro describes his hiring by Tezuka and the feverish efforts to build the studio and create Astro Boy. My Life in 24 Frames Per Second by Rintaro is out now from Kana/Abrams ComicArts.
