David Hockney the Order of Merit, an honour restricted to 24 members at any one time for their contributions to the arts and sciences. He was a Distinguished Honoree of the National Arts Association, Los Angeles, in 1991 and received the First Annual Award of Achievement from the Archives of American Art, Los Angeles, in 1993. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust, New York in 1992 and was given a Foreign Honorary Membership to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997. In 2003, Hockney was awarded the
Year 24 Group works have been noted by critics. Stylistically, Year 24 Group created new conventions in panel layout by departing from the rows of rectangles that were the standard at the time, creating borders that were softened or removed entirely, and panel shapes and configurations that conveyed emotion. Comiket, the world's largest comic convention, was founded by the "dōjinshi" circle Hagio's "They Were Eleven" was included in the first anthology of "shōjo" manga translated into English, "Four Shōjo Stories", published in North America by Viz Media in 1996. Academic Tomoko Yamada has criticized the use of the term "Year 24 Group", noting