SDCC 2013: 20th Century Boys Chalks Up 2nd Eisners Win
On Saturday, at the 25th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards ceremony at San Diego Comic-Con 2013, Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys
2oth Century Boys is a 22 volume action/drama series about a group of friends who discover that years after their childhood misadventures, one of them has become a cult leader who is out to destroy the world. The final volume of 20th Century Boys was published in September 2012, followed by a 2-volume sequel, 21st Century Boys
2oth Century Boys was up against a pretty strong slate of competitors in this category this year, including new books by manga legends Osamu Tezuka and Shigeru Mizuki. Here are the other noteworthy manga nominees from this year’s Eisner Awards:
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- Barbara
by Osamu Tezuka (Digital Manga)
- A Chinese Life
by Li Kunwu and P. Ôtié (Self Made Hero)
- NonNonBa
by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Thermae Romae
by Mari Yamazaki (Yen Press/Hachette)
Other notable winners from this year’s Eisner Awards include two alums from TokyoPop’s “original manga” days, Brandon Graham (who won in the Best Graphic Album—Reprint category for King City
Check out the rest of the winners of from the 2013 Eisner Awards and the 2013 Eisner nominees for even more great comics and graphic novels worth reading.
