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.