2021 Harvey Awards Hall Of Fame Inductees Include Inuyasha Creator Rumiko Takahashi

As part of this weekend’s New York Comedian-Con festivities, the Awards Committee has introduced this 12 months’s inductees for the Harvey Awards Corridor of Fame on Wednesday.

Creator Rumiko Takahashi (Urusei Yatsura, Inuyasha) is certainly one of 5 new members for his or her Corridor of Fame 2021, alongside Bernie Wrightson (Swamp Factor), Jeffrey Catherine Jones (Creepy, Vampirella), Barry Windsor-Smith (Conan the Barbarian, Weapon X), and Michael Kaluta (The Shadow, Starstruck).

Takahashi launched a press release thanking the committee for her induction:

“Thanks a lot for this excellent award. I’m so honored the American readers have loved my work. By the medium of manga, I’m so blissful I’m able to talk with all of you. The world is in hardship as a result of Covid, however I hope my manga can present some consolation.”

Rumiko Takahashi turns into the second mangaka to obtain a spot within the Harvey Awards Corridor of Fame, following final 12 months’s induction of Osamu Tezuka. 

The digital screening of the Harvey Awards will happen on Friday, October 8 throughout New York Comedian Con.

Manga nominees for the Harvey Awards’ Finest Manga class this 12 months embrace Naoki Urasawa’s Asadora!, Keito Gaku’s Boys Run the Riot, Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man, Junji Ito’s Remina, and Tatsuya Endō’s SPY x FAMILY.

The organizers of Harvey Awards, which honor excellent work in comics and sequential artwork on the medium for over 20 years.

Supply: ANN