Cigarette Girl - Softcover

Matsumoto, Masahiko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603093826 ISBN 13: 9781603093828

Publisher: Top Shelf Productions, 2016

Synopsis

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 anxi 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1603093826
• ISBN 13: 9781603093828
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264