The 2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards revealed its winners at Comic-Con International: San Diego on Saturday, and Akiko Higashimura’s Tokyo Tarareba Girls manga won this year’s Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia award.
Last year Gengoroh Tagame’s My Brother’s Husband manga won the Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia award.
Junji Ito’s “Frankenstein” story in the Frankeinstein: Junji Ito Story Collection also won the “Best Adaptation from Another Medium” category.
Kodansha Comics’ 35th anniversary edition of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira manga won the Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books award as well as the Best Publication Design award.