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Shuna's Journey, Black Paradox, Look Back, More Manga Nominated for Eisner Awards

The following manga were nominated in the Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia category:

• Junji Ito's Black Paradox (translated by Jocelyne Allen)
• Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back (translated by Amanda Haley)
• Masaaki Nakayama's PTSD Radio (translated by Adam Hirsch)
• Hayao Miyazaki's Shuna's Journey (translated by Alex Dudok de Wit)
• Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (translation by Ryan Holmberg)

The awards also nominated Junji Ito for the Best Writer/Artist category. The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions, which includes the chapter "XX, XY, and XXY: Genderqueer Bodies in Hagio Moto's Science Fiction Manga" by Keiko Miyajima, received a nomination in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category.

Junji Ito's Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection (translated by Jocelyne Allen) manga 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.

Update: The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions also has the chapters "An Exploration of the Birth of the Slave through Ero-Pedagogy in Tagame Gengoroh's PRIDE" by William S. Armour and "Gay Fanzines as Contact Zones: Dokkun's Adventures with "Bara" Manga in between Japan and France" by Edmond (Edo) Ernest Dit Alban. Thanks, CorneredAngel.

Source: ICv2 (Brigid Alverson)