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

Year 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Kosei Ono Special Prize
2011 Arrugas by Paco Roca (Spain) Civil War by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven (United States) Le Bibendum céleste by Nicolas de Crécy (France) (not awarded)
2012 Les Cités Obscures by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters (Belgium) Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar, Dave Johnson and Killian Plunkett (United States) Muchacho by Emmanuel Lepage (France) (not awarded)
2013 A Taste of Chlorine by Bastien Vivès (France) I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura (United States) 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) (not awarded)
2014 Hawkeye:My Life as a Weapon, by Matt Fraction (United States) The Kampung Boy, by Lat (Malaysia) Jolies Ténébres, by Kerascoët (pen name of Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset) and Fabien Vehlmann (France/Belgium) Little Nemo 1905-1914,by Winsor McKay (United States).
2015 Sayonara September, by Åsa Ekström (Sweden) The New 52: Shazam, by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank (United States) Transformers: All Hail Megatron, by Shane McCarthy and Guido Guidi (United States) Town Boy, by Lat (Malaysia)
2016 Grayson, by Tim Seeley & Tom King (writers), Mikel Janin and Stephen Mooney (art) (United States) Lastman #1, by Bastien Vivès, Balak and Michael Sanlaville (France) Gotham Academy, by Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl (United States) (not awarded)

References

  1. Kuroki, Takahiro (22 November 2013). "Gaiman Awards: Manga isn’t only in Japan!". Pingmag. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  2. "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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