Image source: Ignatz Awards’ website, ComicsBeat (Heidi MacDonald) — via Anime News Network
Glacier Bay Books describes its story:
Seirinkogeisha published the manga short story collection in Japan in 2004.
Glacier Bay Books first announced its release of the manga in May 2025. It launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for it along with several other titles in August 2025. Thecompany announced in April that printing was nearly finished, before publishing the collection in English in May.
Ryan Holmberg translated the collection. Tim Sun didthe lettering, and Emuh Ruh and Ryan Holmberg were the editors.
The Ignatz Awards, which are named after the character in George Herriman's seminal comic Krazy Kat, recognize "outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning." A juryof cartoonists create a ballot every year, and then the attendees of Small Press Expo voteon the nominees.
The 2024 Ignatz Awards nominated Offshore Lightning, a collection of short manga by author Nazuna Saitō, for "Outstanding Collection."
Glacier Bay Books' Glaeolia 2 collection of indie manga won the awardfor the "Outstanding Anthology" category in the 2021 Ignatz Awards.