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Cigarette Girl

Welcome to the quiet, evocative urban dramas of Masahiko Matsumoto, one of the leading lights of the Japanese alternative-comics movement known as "gekiga." Originally published in 1974, these eleven stories now form the first English-language collection of Matsumoto's mature work. His shy, uncertain heroes face broken hearts, changing families, money troubles, sexual anxiety, and the pressures of tradition, but with a whimsy and lightness of touch that is Matsumoto's trademark. With a new introduction by Matsumoto's well-known colleague, the late Yoshihiro Tatsumi.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 264
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781603093828
  • Genres
  • manga, comics, japan, drama, art
  • Release date
  • 2016