The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, North American comics' equivalent of the Oscars, awarded this year's prizes on Friday during San Diego Comic Con. Taking the manga dominated Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia category (established in 2010) - Before that there was a Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan from 2007-2009 and before that, manga competed for Best U.S. Edition of International Material, with Masashi Tanaka's Gonwinning the category's first prize) was Showa, 1953–1989: A History of Japan, by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly).
Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia nominees included
- Assassination Classroom, vols. 2–7, by Yusei Matsui (VIZ)
- A Bride’s Story, by Kaoru Mori (Yen Press)
- Master Keaton, vols. 2–4, by Naoki Urasawa, Hokusei Katsushika, and Takashi Nagasaki (VIZ)
- Showa, 1953–1989: A History of Japan, by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
- A Silent Voice, by Yoshitoki Oima (Kodansha)
- Sunny, by Taiyo Matsumoto (VIZ)
Rumiko Takahashi (InuYasha, Ranma 1/2) was among the nominees to be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2016.
Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan, edited by Mark McLelland et al. (University Press of Mississippi) was nominated for Best Academic/Scholarly Work.
Kaijumax, by Zander Cannon (Oni), a prison meets Japanese monster spoof, was nominated for Best New Series.
Drawn & Quarterly describes Showa, 1953-1989
Showa 1953–1989: A History of Japan concludes Shigeru Mizuki’s dazzling autobiographical and historical account of Showa period Japan, a portrait both intimate and ranging of a defining epoch. The final volume picks up in the wake of Japan’s utter defeat in World War II, as a country reduced to rubble struggles to rise again. The Korean War brings new opportunities to the nation searching for an identity.
A former enemy becomes Japan’s greatest ally as the US funnels money, jobs, and opportunity into the country, hoping to establish it as a bulwark against Soviet communist expansion. Japan reinvents itself, emerging as an economic powerhouse. Events like the Tokyo Olympiad and the World’s Fair introduce a new, friendly Japan to the world, but this period of peace and plenty conceals a populace still struggling to come to terms with the devastation of World War II.
The original Japanese edition of the series Showa: A History of Japan won Mizuki the prestigious Kodansha Manga Award; the English translation has been nominated for an Eisner Award.
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