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Collection of immediate manga tales by Nazuna Saitō launched in English in July 2023
© Nazuna Saitō, Drawn & Quarterly
The Shrimp Press Expo awarded Offshore Lightning, a series of immediate manga by creator Nazuna Saitō, the prize for Illustrious Collection in its 2024 Ignatz Awards on Sunday. The series became as soon as nominated alongside Buzzelli Peaceful Works Vol. 1: The Labyrinth, Total and Sigh Malarkey, Gender Overview: The Confessions of an Unintended Outlaw, and Resenter.
Drawn & Quarterly launched Offshore Lightning in July 2023. The book involves Saitō’s earlier works, as well to the tales “In Captivity” and “Solitary Death Building,” which debuted in 2012 and 2015, respectively.
An excerpt from Drawn & Quarterly‘s solicitation reads:
Tales like “Aquire Dog Meals and Recede Home” and “Offshore Lightning” focal level on heart-outdated men caught in a cycle of self pity and self reflection. Saito gently pokes fun at their anguish and self-involvement while capturing the pathos of these men as they revisit childhood friendships and misplaced loves. In distinction, “In Captivity” follows three siblings visiting their sick mother who’s succumbing to dementia and resentful at her lack of agency. The siblings take a pressure as they reckon with balancing the painful legacy of her caustic personality with making an are trying to honor this lady at the stop of her lifestyles. “Solitary Dying Building” documents an eccentric solid of elderly gossips as death descends upon the housing advanced where they all are residing.
Saito debuted as a manga creator in her 40s, profitable Shogakukan‘s Tremendous Comic Newcomer Award with her fable “Dahlia” in 1987. She published “Solitary Death Building” (“Bocchi Shi no Yakata“) in Shogakukan‘s Tremendous Comic Favorite journal in December 2017. The fable became as soon as nominated on this year’s 28th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
The Ignatz Awards, which shall be named after the personality in George Herriman’s seminal comic Krazy Kat, acknowledge “outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.” A jury of cartoonists create a ballotevery year, and then the attendees of Shrimp Press Expo vote on the nominees. This year’s match became as soon as held on September 14-15 in Bethesda, Maryland.
Glacier Bay Books‘ Glaeolia 2 series of indie manga obtained the award for the “Outstanding Anthology” category at the 2021 Ignatz Awards.
Source: Shrimp Press Expo’s web space
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