#DRCL, 'Goodbye, Eri,' 'River's Edge,' Among Eisner Award Nominees
#DRCL, 'Goodbye, Eri,' 'River's Edge,' Among Eisner Award Nominees
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:
Shin'ichi Sakamoto's #DRCL midnight children (based on Bram
Stoker's Dracula) (translated by Caleb Cook)
Tatsuki Fujimoto's Goodbye, Eri (translated by Amanda Haley)
Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary (translated by Ryan
Holmberg)
Kyoko Okazaki's River's Edge (translated by Alexa Frank)
Mokumokuren's The Summer Hikaru Died (translated by Ajani
Oloye)
The following works by Japanese authors, or works related to
Japanese media, were also nominated in various categories:
Best Continuing Series: Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers
Best Limited Series: Frank Tieri and Inaki Miranda's Godzilla:
Here There Be Dragons
Best Publication for Teens: Mamoru Aoi's My Girlfriend's
Child (translated by Hana Allen)
Best Humor Publication: Teki Yatsuda's The Yakuza's Bias (translated
by Max Greenway)
Best Graphic Album—Reprint: Ichigo Takano's Orange Complete
Series Box Set (translated by Amber Tamosaitis)
Best Adaptation From Another Medium:
Shin'ichi Sakamoto's #DRCL midnight children (based on Bram
Stoker's Dracula) (translated by Caleb Cook)
Gou Tanabe's The Shadow Over Innsmouth (based on H.P.
Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth) (translated by Zack Davisson)
Best Writer/Artist: Mokumokuren, The Summer Hikaru Died
(translated by Ajani Oloye)
Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team: Inaki Miranda,
Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons
Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (Interior Art): Sana Takeda, The
Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers, Monstress
Best Publication Design: Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun First Stall
Box Set, designed by Wendy Chan
Hayao Miyazaki's Shuna's Journey (translated by Alex Dudok
de Wit) manga won last year's Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia
award. The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions—which
includes the chapters "XX, XY, and XXY: Genderqueer Bodies in Hagio Moto's
Science Fiction Manga" by Keiko Miyajima, "An Exploration of the
Birth of the Slave through Ero-Pedagogy in Tagame Gengoroh's PRIDE" by
William S. Armour, and "Gay Fanzines as Contact Zones: Dokkun's Adventures
with 'Bara' Manga in between Japan and France" by Edmond (Edo) Ernest Dit
Alban—also won the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category.
Source: Comic-Con International
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