Manga Titles Get 2009 Eisner Award Noms

Tsukasa (Staff Writer) — April 8th, 2009 — 12:27
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The panel of judges for the 2009 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards has announced its nominees for the comic industry's best works this year.

The nominees are as follows:

  • Best Continuing Series: Monster, by Naoki Urasawa
  • Best Publication for Kids: Cowa! by Akira Toriyama
  • Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic Books: Good-Bye, by Yoshihiro Tatsumi

The titles nominated for the Best U.S. Edition of International Material Japan category are:

  • Monster
  • Cat Eyed Boy, by Kazuo Umezu
  • Dororo, by Osamu Tezuka
  • The Quest for the Missing Girl, by Jiro Taniguchi
  • Solanin, by Inio Asano

The awards ceremony will be hosted at Comic Con International on July 24th in San Diego.