Keiji Nakazawa, author of "Barefoot Gen", an iconic Japanese comic about the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, has been chosen as one of the newest members to join the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame, the U.S. awards body's website showed Thursday.The Eisner awards are considered the Academy Awards of the comic book industry."It is an honor to receive this award, and I think my husband would have been delighted," said Nakazawa's widow Misayo, 81, who received a commemorative trophy on his behalf."He created (the manga) because he did not want nuclear bombs to be used ever again. I wan…READ FULL ARTICLE
