Some observers have a not entirely unjustified feeling that the Eisners do not quite give manga its due: It’s indeed the rare manga nominee that is found outside of this one specialized category. Of course, as a manga editor, I may be ever-so-slightly biased, but I simply can’t improve upon the commentary on this issue that’s offered by Deb Aoki at About.com, in which she asked a number of bloggers, critics, and comics creators to list their own choices for Eisner-worthy manga, and listed the interesting results here. That’s a great manga reading list—even for manga newbies—as are some of the very worthy nominees in this category: the depth and breadth of styles on offer show that manga is not at all monolithic, forbidding, and foreign—manga is just good comics. After the jump, the nominees…
