The winner will likely be introduced at Comedian-Con in San Diego on July 26
© Oma Sei, Kodansha USA Publishing
Comedian-Con Worldwide introduced the nominees for the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award for the Will Eisner Comedian Business Awards on Friday, and the nominees embrace Grandma Seithe manga creator for the Bloodleaf manga.
Different nominees for this yr’s award are: Oliver Bly (The Mushroom Knight), Patrick Horvath (Underneath the bushes the place nobody sees), Vincent Kings (Atomic fairy tales, Time Canine and different atomic fairy tales), and Eamon Winkle (Ideas of Necromancy).
Previous award winners and Russ Manning assistants will choose the winner, and Comedian-Con Worldwide will announce the winner in the course of the Will Eisner Comedian Business Awards ceremony at Comedian-Con San Diego on July 26. The Russ Manning Award was first launched in 1982. No manga creator has received the award earlier than.
Kodansha USA Writer began publishing Bloodleaf first in English in fall 2023 with a weekly serialization. The corporate additionally started publishing the manga in composite quantity kind digitally and in print in February.
Kodansha USA Writer describes the manga:
Fallen in battle way back, Rely Vlad Dracula is reborn as a katana-wielding younger vampiress in a Europe with an alternate historical past. After the reincarnated Dracula saves a lady named Clara from a mysterious stranger, Clara explains that she is the creation of a sure Victor Frankenstein. She additionally reveals that she is on the run from a company referred to as Cerberus, which desires to seize and examine “monsters” like herself to create a military of human-monster hybrids. Clara begs the vampiress to flee together with her to an island filled with monsters the place they may each be protected… however as they make their method to Monster Island, they’re pursued by the sinister forces of Cerberus.
Many different manga have been nominated for this yr’s Eisner Awards, together with Goodbye, Eri; My photograph diary; Summer time Hikaru died; River edge; #DRCL midnight kids; And My girlfriend’s babyamongst different issues.
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