Barefoot Gen Creator Keiji Nakazawa Among 2023 Eisner Hall of Fame Nominees
San Diego Comic-Con announced details about the 2023 Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame honors, including a list of 15 automatic inductees and a selection of creators from around the world who will be up for vote-in induction. Among those in the latter category is Keiji Nakazawa, the late manga author best known for creating the Barefoot Gen manga about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its harrowing aftermath.
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This marks the second time for Nakazawa—who passed away in 2012—to be nominated for the Eisner Hall of Fame. He was previously nominated in 2020.
Other nominees this year include Gus Arriola, Brian Bolland, Gerry Conway, Edwina Dumm, Mark Evanier, Creig Flessel, Bob Fujitani, Warren Kremer, Todd McFarlane, Ann Nocenti, Paul Norris, Bud Plant, Tim Sale, Diana Schutz and Phil Seuling. Voters will select four from this list for induction this summer.
As for the automatic inductees, they include living creators Bill Griffith, Jack Katz, Garry Trudeau and Tatjana Wood and late creators Jerry Bails, Tony DeZuniga, Justin Green, Jay Jackson, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Win Mortimer, Diane Noomin, Gaspar Saladino, Kim Thompson, and Mort Walker.
Last Gasp published Barefoot Gen in English along with other works by Keiji Nakazawa, describing the story as such:
The atomic bomb exploded 600 meters above my hometown of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 a.m. I was a little over one kilometer away from the epicenter, standing at the back gate of Kanazaki Primary School, when I was hit by a terrible blast of wind and searing heat.
I was six years old. I owe my life to the school’s concrete wall. If I hadn’t been standing in its shadow, I would have been burned to death instantly by the 5,000-degree heat flash.
Instead, I found myself in a living hell, the details of which remain etched in my brain as if it happened yesterday.
Source: The Beat
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