Junji Ito wins the American Eisner Award for Comic Books for the fourth time

The latest San Diego Comic-Con opened on July 23. The famous Japanese horror manga master Junji Ito won the American "Esner Award" for his work "Love Until Death". This is the fourth time that Junji Ito has won this award.

•The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is the most famous comics award in the United States. It was first held in 1987 and is known as the "Oscar of the comics industry." The Asian division of the Eisner Award judges Asian comics and comic strips translated and published in the United States.

• "Love Until Death" is a classic work by Junji Ito, with a total of 4 parts. The background of the story is that there is a custom called "crossroad divination" left in the town of Mist, that is, people stand at the crossroads and wait for the first person who passes there, and divination "good luck" or "bad luck" based on what he says. At the same time, it is also said that if you meet a beautiful boy in black clothes when doing cross divination, the beautiful boy will definitely say something desperate, and the love of the person doing the divination will definitely not come true.

•Junji Ito’s works are extremely popular in Europe and the United States. He won the "Esner Award for Comic" for the first time in 2019 and two "Esner Awards for Comic" at the same time in 2021.