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Comic-Con International announced the nominees for this year’s Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards on Thursday. The following manga were nominated in the Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia category:
Yūna Hirasawa’s My Journey to Her (Kodansha) is competing in the Best Digital Comic category. Viz Media’s release of X-Men: The Manga Remastered is also nominated for the Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books category. Hirofumi Ichikawa, Hiroshi Higuchi, Kōji Yasue, Miyako Cojima, Rei Nakahara, and Reiji Hagiwara worked on the original manga. David Brothers is the editor for the release, and Fawn Lau is the designer.
IDW’s Godzilla’s 70th Anniversary is vying for the Best Anthology award. Kelly Goto and Sam Goto’s Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist’s Perspective of the Japanese American Experience (Chin Music Press) is in Best Graphic Album—Reprint category.
Maki Fujiwara’s My Picture Diary (translated by Ryan Holmberg) won last year’s award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia.
As previously reported, Junji Ito has been nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame this year. The organizers already pre-selected late manga creator Shigeru Mizuki for induction into the Hall of Fame this year.
Source: Comic-Con International
