Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Days, Yuna Hirasawa’s My Journey to Her Manga Win Eisner Awards – News

Comic-Con International announced the winners for this year’s Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards on Friday. Taiyo Matsumoto‘s Tokyo These Days (translated by Michael Arias) won the award for the Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia category.

The other nominees in the category were:

Additionally, IDW’s Godzilla’s 70th Anniversary won the Best Anthology award, and Yūna Hirasawa‘s My Journey to Her (Kodansha) manga won the Best Digital Comic award.

Kelly Goto and Sam Goto’s Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist’s Perspective of the Japanese American Experience (Chin Music Press) was nominated in the Best Graphic Album—Reprint category. However, The One Hand and The Six Fingers by Ram V, Dan Watters, Laurence Campbell, and Sumit Kumar won.

Viz Media‘s release of X-Men: The Manga Remastered was 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. However, David Mazzucchelli’s Batman Year One Artist’s Edition by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, edited by Scott Dunbier, won.

The Eisner Awards also inducted horror manga creator Junji Ito into its Hall of Fame earlier on Friday. Ito previously won Eisner Awards for Lovesickness, Remina, Venus In The Blind Spot, and “Frankenstein.”

The organizers already pre-selected late manga creator Shigeru Mizuki for induction into the Hall of Fame this year.

Maki Fujiwara‘s My Picture Diary (translated by Ryan Holmberg) won last year’s award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia.

Sources: Heidi MacDonald’s Bluesky account (link 2, link 3, link 4, link 5), The Beat (Samantha Puc)