Shigeru Mizuki's Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths won the Eisner Award in the Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia category at Comic-Con International on Friday. This is the first Eisner win for Mizuki. The manga was competing against Kaoru Mori's A Bride's Story, Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto's The Drops of God, Hisae Iwaoka's Saturn Apartments, Takashi Murakami's Stargazing Dog, and Takako Shimura's Wandering Son (volume 1).
