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Comic-Con International announced the winners of this year's Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards on Friday. Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary (translated by Ryan Holmberg) won the award for Best International Documentary Published in the United States—Asia.
The following comic series are also nominated in the category:
Additionally, Sana Takeda won Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (Interior Art) for The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers and Monstress.
Mokumokuren's The Summer Hikaru Died (translated by Ajani Oloye) was nominated for Best Writer/Artist, but Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers won the award. Johnson's Transformers also won Best Continuing Series.
Blood Blade's Oma Sei was nominated for the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award, but Oliver Bly's The Mushroom Knight won the award.
Shin'ichi Sakamoto's Midnight's Children #DRCL (based on Bram Stoker's Dracula) (translated by Caleb Cook) and Gou Tanabe's The Shadow Over Innsmouth (based on HP Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth) (translated by Zack Davisson) were both nominated for Best Adapted Film from Another Medium, but Richard Adams, James Sturm, and Joe Sutphin's Watership Down won.
The Yakuza's Bias by Teki Yatsuda (translated by Max Greenway) was nominated for Best Humor Publication, but it was Jeff: The Jeff-Verse #1 by Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru that took the award.
The first Hanako-kun toiletry box set, designed by Wendy Chan, was nominated for Best Publication Design, but the Frankenstein box set of Dracula and Mary Shelley by Bram Stoker, designed by Mike Kennedy (Magnetic), won the award.
Ichigo Takano's Orange Complete Series box set (translated by Amber Tamosaitis) was nominated for Best Graphic Album—Reissue, but Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott; as well as Hip Hop Family Tree: The Omnibus by Ed Piskor won the award.
Mamoru Aoi's My Girlfriend's Child (translated by Hana Allen) was nominated for Best Young Adult Publication, but Danger and Other Unknown Risks by Ryan North and Erica Henderson won the award.
Inaki Miranda was nominated for Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team for Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons, but Jillian Tamaki won for Roaming. Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons was also nominated for Best Limited Series, but Caroline Cash's PeePee PooPoo won.
Hayao Miyazaki's Shuna's Journey (translated by Alex Dudok de Wit) won the Best International Documentary award from the U.S.—Asia edition last year. The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Beginnings, Future Directions—which includes chapters on “XX, XY, and XXY: Gendered Bodies in Hagio Moto's Science Fiction Manga” by Keiko Miyajima, “Exploring the Birth of Slavery through Ero Pedagogy” in Tagame Gengoroh's PRIDE” by William S. Armor, 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 award.
Source: The Beat (Samantha), Heidi MacDonald