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Rumiko Takahashi Inducted into Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The 2018 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards inducted manga creator 2014. Takahashi was nominated alongside 15 others this year.
Creative professionals working in the comics or related industries, publishers, editors, retailers (comics store owner or manager), graphic novels librarians, and comics historians/educators voted online for the award. Other voted-in inductees include Charles Addams, Karen Berger, and Dave Gibbons. Judges previously selected cartoonist Jackie Ormes and Marvel marketing manager Carol Kalish to be inducted into the Hall of Fame in January.
In her career of over three decades, Takahashi created such manga series as appeared at the convention in 1994 and 2000.
The convention gave Takahashi an Inkpot Award during her first visit there. The previous Japanese inductees of the Eisner Hall of Fame Winsor McCay.
Source: The Beat (Kyle Pinion)
