Recipients of the North America comic industry’s prestigious Eisner Awards were announced last night at San Diego Comic Con. Hayao Miyazaki was inducted into its Hall of Fame along with Alan Moore, Dennis O’Neil and Bernie Wrightson. Rumiko Takahashi was also nominated.
The Mysterious Underground Men by Osamu Tezuka, released by PictureBox was recognized with Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia.
Other nominees included
- The Heart of Thomas, by Moto Hagio (Fantagraphics)
- Showa: A History of Japan, 1926–1939, by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Summit of the Gods, vol. 4, by Yemmakura Baku and Jiro Taniguchi (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
- Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist, by Asumiko Nakamura (Vertical)
Picture Box describes The Mysterious Underground Men
Osamu Tezuka, Ryan Holmberg
Originally published in Osaka in 1948, The Mysterious Underground Men tells the story of Mimio the talking rabbit, as he struggles to prove his humanity while helping his friends save earth from an invasion of angry humanoid ants. While Tezuka’s New Treasure Island (1946-47) was the first major hit for the “god of manga,” the artist himself regarded this later book the first of his signature “story manga. Inspired by Bernhard Kellermann’s Der Tunnel (1913) and drawing widely on European and American science fiction, as well as Milt Gross’ own pioneering “graphic novel,” He Done Her Wrong (1930), this full-color edition of The Mysterious Underground Men will not only introduce to English-language readers a founding monument in modern Japanese comics. It will also offer a rare glimpse at the wide-ranging Western cultural sources that made up young Tezuka’s world.
This is the second volume in PictureBox’s “Ten Cent Manga” series, edited by Ryan Holmberg, exploring that mysterious underground country between Japanese and American popular culture.
You can see a complete list of winners here
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain’t It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
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