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Comics Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame award is the most famous comics in the U.S. (Hall of Fame) to enter candidates, was selected for Japan's cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Eisner Award is to operate Komikonintanashonaru Komikon is aimed at the San Diego Comics America's biggest pop culture event. Several artists were delivering superior performance in the world annually Comics, celebrating his achievements as a Hall of Fame.
2010 Eisner Award Selection Committee, Comics Tarzan 』and『 late Mr. Byrne is the author of gas 『Mobile』 Achi・Komikkusu decided late Bob Montana's creators. Create a short list of 13 more people, by four votes to decide who the Hall of Fame. Tatsumi's has become one of the candidate list.

Comics Hall of Fame was started since 1987, is one of the oldest prize in a Eisner Award. Will Eisner's other name was derived from the Eisner Award, Mr. Stan Lee's and Winsor McCay, Charles Schulz, and Mobius's 102 artists have been chosen to represent the industry or so.
Japan's Osamu Tezuka from the year 2002, 2004 by Kazuo Koike, has been chosen Goseki Kojima says. If Tatsumi says that if elected, he will be 4 th Japanese.

Mr. Yoshihiro Tatsumi is one of Japan's leading cartoonists, known as the creator of the comic strip in particular. Higher than Japan's reputation abroad. Other works have been nominated in the past that the Eisner Award in 2006, has been awarded a special prize Sandigo Komikon visited.
In recent years, depicting the birth of the comic strip cartoonists around 『a』 graphic novel drifting, as well as Japan, North America, which created a stir in Europe.

Hall of Fame voting is done through the website. Voters Comics artists, the publishing industry, editors, and an official with the comic store. March 31 vote until the date is.

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