Comic-Con International announced on Friday that the Eisner Awards judges have nominated manga creators Akira Toriyama and Naoki Urasawa for the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame this year.
The previous Japanese inductees of the Eisner Hall of Fame were Osamu Tezuka (2002), Kazuo Koike (2004), Goseki Kojima (2004), Katsuhiro Otomo (2012), and Rumiko Takahashi (2018).
The Eisner Awards have awarded his 20th Century Boys manga the Best U.S. Edition of International Material – Asia award twice.
They are part of a selection of 16 nominees, four of whom will be selected by vote to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.