Eisner nominations: Mangamania!

The Eisner Award nominees have been announced, and there are some really phenomenal books and creators on the list. I’ll probably go into more detail on that later, but for now, here are the manga-centric nominations:

Best Continuing Series

  • Naoki Urasawa’s Monster, by Naoki Urasawa (Viz)
  • Best New Series

  • East Coast Rising, by Becky Cloonan (Tokyopop)
  • Best Anthology

  • Japan as Viewed by 17 Creators, edited by Frédéric Boilet (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
  • Best Reality-Based Work

  • Project X Challengers: Cup Noodle, by Tadashi Katoh (Digital Manga)
  • Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

  • Abandon the Old In Tokyo, by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Ode to Kirihito, by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)
  • Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Japan

  • After School Nightmare, by Setona Mizushiro (Go! Comi)
  • Antique Bakery, by Fumi Yoshinaga (Digital Manga)
  • Naoki Urasawa’s Monster, by Naoki Urasawa (Viz)
  • Old Boy, by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi (Dark Horse Manga)
  • Walking Man, by Jiro Taniguchi (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
  • Special Recognition

  • Ross Campbell, Abandoned (Tokyopop); Wet Moon 2 (Oni)
  • Svetlana Chmakova, Dramacon (Tokyopop)
  • (Edited because I couldn’t have made the link to the nominations tinier if I’d put it on a comma.)