The American Library Affiliation’s Graphic Novels & Comics Spherical Desk (GNCRT) introduced on Monday its 2021 Greatest Graphic Novels for Adults Studying Listing, and the highest ten record contains Kabi Nagata‘s My Alcoholic Escape from Actuality (Genjitsu Tōhi Shitetara Boroboro ni Natta Hanashi) manga. Shigeru Mizuki‘s Tono Monogatari and Junji Ito‘s Remina manga had been additionally included in GNCRT’s full record.

The GNCRT additionally revealed the 2021 Greatest Graphic Novels for Youngsters Studying Listing, and the total record contains Kanata Konami‘s Sue and Tai-chan manga.

Seven Seas licensed and launched My Alcoholic Escape from Actuality, and it describes the manga:

Nagata Kabi’s downward spiral is getting uncontrolled, and she will’t cease consuming to assuage the ache of actuality. After affected by insufferable abdomen pains, she goes to the hospital, the place she is identified with pancreatitis—and is straight away hospitalized. A brand new chapter unfolds in Nagata Kabi’s life, as she struggles to seek out her means again to actuality and manga creation within the wake of her breakdown.

East Press printed the autobiographical manga in Japan in November 2019.

Seven Seas Leisure launched Nagata’s My Lesbian Expertise with Loneliness manga in June 2017. The discharge has ranked on Amazon‘s record of Greatest Graphic Novels for 2017 and BookScan’s month-to-month record of high promoting comics. The corporate then launched her My Solo Trade Diary manga in June 2018.

Sources: GNCRT, ICv2 (Brigid Alverson)