Manga Nominated for France's Angoulême Comics Awards
posted on 2008-11-22 12:38 ESTFrance's Angoulême International Comics Festival has announced the nominations for the awards in three of its categories this year. Among them are several Japanese manga titles:
Les Gouttes de Dieu volume 1 (Kami no Shizuku/The Drops of God)
Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto (Glénat)
Le Voleur de visages (Kao Dorobō/The Thief of Faces)
Junji Ito (Tonkam)
Ushijima volume 3 (Ushijima the Loan Shark)
Shohei Manabe (Kana)
Undercurrent
Tetsuya Toyoda
Kana
Le Château de l'aurore (Yoake Shiro/The Castle of Dawn)
Osamu Tezuka (Cornélius)
Doraemon, Le Chat venu du futur volume 8 (Doraemon, The Cat from the Future)
Fujiko F. Fujio (Kana)
NANA volume 18
Ai Yazawa (Delcourt)
Au bord de l'eau (Suigoden/Water Margin)
Mitsuteru Yokoyama (Delcourt)
L'Enfer (Jigoku/Hell)
Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Cornélius)
Opération Mort (Operation Death)
Shigeru Mizuki (Cornélius)
Source: The Comic Reporter via Icarus Publishing
Official Selection
Les Gouttes de Dieu volume 1 (Kami no Shizuku/The Drops of God)Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto (Glénat)
Le Voleur de visages (Kao Dorobō/The Thief of Faces)Junji Ito (Tonkam)
Ushijima volume 3 (Ushijima the Loan Shark)Shohei Manabe (Kana)
UndercurrentTetsuya Toyoda
Kana
Youth Selection
Le Château de l'aurore (Yoake Shiro/The Castle of Dawn)Osamu Tezuka (Cornélius)
Doraemon, Le Chat venu du futur volume 8 (Doraemon, The Cat from the Future)Fujiko F. Fujio (Kana)
NANA volume 18Ai Yazawa (Delcourt)
Heritage Award
Au bord de l'eau (Suigoden/Water Margin)Mitsuteru Yokoyama (Delcourt)
L'Enfer (Jigoku/Hell)Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Cornélius)
Opération Mort (Operation Death)Shigeru Mizuki (Cornélius)
Source: The Comic Reporter via Icarus Publishing
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