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Hayao Miyazaki's Shuna's Journey Wins Eisner Award
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The manga competed against the following other works in the category:
The awards also nominated Junji Ito for the Best Writer/Artist category, but Kate Beaton won for Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands from Drawn & Quarterly.
The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions — which includes the chapters "XX, XY, and XXY: Genderqueer Bodies in Tagame Gengoroh's PRIDE" by William S. Armour, and "Gay Fanzines as Zones: Dokkun's Adventures with 'Bara' Manga in between Japan and " by Edmond (Edo) Ernest Dit Alban — received a nomination in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category, and won that category. Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren edited the work, and University Press of Mississippi published the work.
Late manga creator Tim Sale, and Diana Schutz.
Winners who were inducted automatically this year without votes include: Jerry Bails, Tony DeZuniga, Kim Thompson, Mort Walker, Bill Griffith, Jack Katz, Garry Trudeau, and Tatjana Wood.
Junji Ito's won last year's Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia award. Eike Exner's Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History also won last year's award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work.
Sources: Heidi MacDonald, Bleeding Cool (Rich Johnston)
