Hayao Miyazaki's “Journey to Junai” Wins Eisner Award

This manga competes with the following other works in this category:

Junji Ito
(translated by
Jocelyne Allen)
)
(translated by
Amanda Harry)
(translated by )( Translated by Adam Hirsch )
by Murasaki Yamada
(translated by Ryan Holmberg
)

The award is also nominated for Junji Ito

was in the Best Writer/Artist category, but Kate Beaton won Best Writer/Artist
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
from Drawn & Quarterly
.
LGBTQ+ Manga Studies Reads: Critical Beginnings, Future Directions – which includes chapters “XX, XY, and XXY: Hagio Moto’s Gender Queer Body Keiko Miyajima’s Science Fiction Manga”, William S. Armor’s “Exploring the Birth of a Slave Through Erotic Pedagogy
Tagame Gengo Roh’s Pride”, Edmund (Edo) Ernest Dieter Alban’s “Gay Doujinshi as a Contact Zone: Dokkun’s ‘Bara’ Manga Adventures Between Japan and France” – nominated in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category, and won in that category. Alison Hassall and Jonathan Warren edited the work, which is published by University of Mississippi Press.

The late manga artist Keiji Nakazawa () was nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame this year, but was not inducted. Nakazawa was previously nominated for the Hall of Fame at 400, but was also not inducted. This year’s 400 nominees include: Brian Bolland, Ann Nocenti, Tim Sale

and Diana Schutz.

This year’s unvoted automatic winners include: Jerry Bails, Tony DeZuniga, Justin Green , Jay Jackson, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Erin Kaminski-Krim, Winn Mortimer, Diane Numin, Gaspar Saladino, Kim Thompson

, Mort Walker, Bill Griffiths, Jack Katz, Gary Trudeau and Tajana Wood.

Junji Ito’s manga (translated by Jocelyn Allen

) by Junji Ito
won the Best of Asia award from the American edition of International Materials last year. Eike Exner’s Origins of Comics and Comic Books: A Revisionist History
also won last year’s Best Academic/Academic Work. Source: Heidi MacDonald, Bleeding Cool (Rich Johnston)

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