Buddha and Cromartie High Nominated for Eisners
The nominations for the 2006 Eisner awards (for material released in 2005) have been announced.
The only two manga to have been nominated are Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha (vols. 5-8), published by Vertical, for “Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books” and Eiji Nonaka’s Cromartie High School, published by ADV, nominated for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material.
Buddha, which has won Eisners for the past two years running, is up against the following nominees: Absolute Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons; The Contract with God Trilogy, by Will Eisner; DC Comics Rarities Archives, vol. 1; and Fantastic Four Omnibus, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Cromartie High School will compete with these titles for the Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material award; Dungeon: The Early Years, vol. 1, by Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, and Christophe Blaine; Ordinary Victories, by Manu Larcenet; The Rabbi’s Cat, by Joann Sfar; and Six Hundred Seventy-Six Apparitions of Killoffer, by Killoffer.
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