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20th Century Boys, 7 Billion Needles Get Eisner Nods
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Urasawa is also up for the Best Writer/Artist award for 20th Century Boys, along with Dan Clowes, Darwyn Cooke, Joe Kubert, Terry Moore, and James Sturm. Urawasa received two nominations — for both 20th Century Boys and Pluto: Urasawa X Tezuka — in this category last year.
Five manga titles are vying for the Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia award:

By Bunny Drop
By A Drunken Dream and Other Stories
By Moto Hagio
Fantagraphics

By Natsume Ono
Viz Media

By Naoki Urasawa
Viz Media
The results in all categories will be announced in a gala awards ceremony on the evening of Friday, July 22 at Comic-Con International in San Diego.
[Via animeanime.biz]