Lone Wolf And Cub Deluxe Edition Wins Ringo Award For Design
The jury and fan win puts a design credit, May Hijikuro's, on the record of an industry award for a manga edition, which is a different kind of recognition than a sales or popularity result.
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The Deluxe Edition of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's Lone Wolf and Cub won Best Presentation in Design at the 2026 Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards, announced at the 26th annual Baltimore Comic-Con on September 26. May Hijikuro is credited as the designer. The Deluxe Edition's first volume shipped on December 9. The awards, named for the late artist Mike Wieringo, held their 10th annual ceremony in 2026.
The Ringo Awards are named for the late comic artist Mike Wieringo, and the 2026 ceremony was the 10th annual edition. Fans and professionals pick the nominations, and only professionals working in comics vote on the winners, though the ceremony itself is open to both. That structure means the design category result comes from people who work with printed books.
The award covers the Deluxe Edition of a manga that has been in English print in several forms. Dark Horse Comics released the series starting in 2000 and later moved to omnibus editions, with a Gallery Edition reprint that arrived in a single volume in July 2018.
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