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.
The 2018 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards revealed its winners at Comic-Con International: San Diego on Saturday, and Gengoroh Tagame’s My Brother’s Husband manga won this year’s Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia award.
The manga competed against Jiro Taniguchi’s Furari, Satoru Noda’s Golden Kamuy, Moto Hagio’s Otherworld Barbara, and Junji Ito’s Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories.
Emil Ferris won the award for My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.