Gaiman Award
The Gaiman Award (Japanese: ガイマン賞, Hepburn: Gaiman-shō) is a Japanese award given since 2011 to comic books created outside Japan and translated to Japanese.[1] The word "gaiman" is a shortening of gaikoku no manga (foreign manga), encompassing styles like American comics, French bande dessinée and Korean manhwa. The award is sponsored by Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kitakyushu Manga Museum and Meiji University's Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture and was created to raise awareness of non-Japanese comics in Japan.[2]
Winners
- 2011
- 1st Place: Arrugas by Paco Roca (Spain)
- 2nd Place: Civil War by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven (United States)
- 3rd Place: Le Bibendum céleste by Nicolas de Crécy (France)
- 2012
- 1st Place: Les Cités Obscures by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters (Belgium)
- 2nd Place: Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar, Dave Johnson and Killian Plunkett (United States)
- 3rd Place: Muchacho by Emmanuel Lepage (France)
- 2013
- 1st Place: A Taste of Chlorine by Bastien Vivès (France)
- 2nd Place: I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura (United States)
- 3rd Place: Neet Metal by Daniel Ahlgren (Sweden), Black Hole by Charles Burns (USA) and Superman for All Seasons by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale (United States)
- 2014
- 1st Place: Hawkeye:My Life as a Weapon, by Matt Fraction (United States)
- 2nd Place: The Kampung Boy, by Lat (Malaysia)
- 3rd Place:Jolies Ténébres, by Kerascoët (pen name of Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset) and Fabien Vehlmann (France/Belgium)
Kosei Ono Special Prize: Little Nemo 1905-1914, by Winsor McKay (United States).
2015
- 1st Place: Sayonara September, by Åsa Ekström (Sweden)
- 2nd Place: The New 52: Shazam, by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank (United States)
- 3rd Place: Transformers: All Hail Megatron, by Shane McCarthy and Guido Guidi (United States)
Kosei Ono Special Prize: Town Boy, by Lat (Malaysia) .
References
- ^ Kuroki, Takahiro (22 November 2013). "Gaiman Awards: Manga isn't only in Japan!". Pingmag. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ^ "ANIME NEWS: 'Taste of Chlorine' voted No. 1 translated foreign comic in 2013". AJW. Asahi Shimbun. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
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