Barefoot Gen Manga Author Keiji Nakazawa Inducted into Eisner Hall of Fame

The Eisner Awards have announced their automatic inductees for the 2024 Hall of Fame, including Keiji Nakazawa, creator of the manga series “Barefoot Gen.” Nakazawa passed away in 2012 but was nominated for the Hall of Fame in 2020 and has now been officially inducted. Other automatic inductees include Kim Deitch, Creig Flessel, A.B. Frost, Billy Graham, Gary Groth, Albert Kanter, Warren Kremer, Oskar Lebeck, Frans Masereel, Don McGregor, Noel Sickles, Cliff Sterrett, Elmer C. Stoner, Bryan Talbot, Ron Turner, George Tuska, Lynn Varley and James Warren. “Barefoot Gen” is one of Nakazawa’s works that depicts the atomic bombing of Hiroshima from a first-hand perspective, with the story beginning at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when the bomb exploded 600 meters away from Nakazawa’s hometown. The series ran for 10 volumes from 1973 to 1987 and was published in English by Last Gasp.

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