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  • About Sean's Books
  • Latest News/Blog
  • Further Info
  • All Books By Title
    • Articles and Essays book
    • AX
    • Black Ships
    • Book of Five Rings
    • Breaking the 10
    • Bushido
    • Cold Mountain
    • Christmas Carol
    • Cigarette Girl
    • Cross Cultural Studies
    • Demon's Sermon
    • Faceless Ghost
    • 47 Ronin 忠臣蔵
    • Fight The Power!
    • Gardening Mindfulness
    • Goodbye God
    • GFTU 120th Anniversary
    • Hagakure
    • Mamiya's Maps
    • Many Not the Few
    • Minamata Story
    • Morningside
    • Musashi
    • Ninja
    • Orwell
    • Parecomic
    • Portraits of Violence
    • Satsuma Rebellion 西郷隆盛と西南戦争
    • Spirit of Japan
    • Story of Lee
    • Sweeney Todd
    • Systems
    • Tale of Genji
    • Tao Te Ching
    • Tokyo + Olympics Guide
    • Wuthering Heights
    • Yakuza Moon
    • Yokai Stories
  • Social Issue Books
  • Books On Japan
  • Original Story Books
  • 日本語 Nihongo
    • 日本語の情報
    • 忠臣蔵
    • 西郷隆盛と西南戦争
    • 東京 +オリンピック
  • Digital/Ebook
    • Comixology, kindle, itunes
    • IZNEO digital website
    • 47 Ronin ebook
    • Articles and Essays ebook
    • Bits and Bobs ebook
    • Book of Five Rings
    • Black Ships ebook
    • Breaking the 10 ebook
    • Bushido ebook
    • Cold Mountain ebook
    • Conway Connection
    • Cross Cultural Studies ebook
    • Demon's Sermon ebook
    • Faceless Ghost ebook
    • Fight the Power ebook
    • The Garden ebook
    • Goodbye God? ebook
    • GFTU 120th Anniversary
    • Hagakure ebook
    • Japanese Drawing Room
    • Mamiya's Maps ebook
    • Minamata ebook
    • Morningside ebook
    • Musashi ebook
    • Ninja ebook
    • Orwell ebook
    • Parecomic ebook
    • Portraits of Violence ebook
    • Satsuma Rebellion 西郷隆盛 Ebook
    • Story of Lee ebook
    • Tale of Genji ebook
    • Tao Te Ching ebook
    • Yokai Stories ebook
    • Français ebooks
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  • Publishers and Distributors
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  • Sean's Amazon page
  • Sean's books on Lulu
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    • A History of Mr X
    • Anti-violence strip
    • Basic Income
    • Fountain of Youth
    • Fred Dixon
    • Infograph on comics as art
    • Manufacturing Consent - Illustrated
    • Poems
    • SSCC
    • What did you do in the war daddy?
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SEAN MICHAEL WILSON
                          Cigarette Girl
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By Masahiko Matsumoto

​Edited by Sean Michael Wilson
Introduction by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Biographical back section text by Mitsuhiro Asakawa.

The first big collection of Matsumoto's work in English!

Publisher: IDW - TOP SHELF May 2016 $24.99


"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."

Launched at the Toronto Comic Book Convention, 2016 



Get it here:
http://www.amazon.com/Cigarette-Girl-Masahiko-Matsumoto/dp/1603093826

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Matsumoto (right) with Tatsumi, in 2003.
Reviews

“Utterly endearing, unsentimental, and wise... Matsumoto pinpoints the day-to-day troubles and modest triumphs of city-dwellers striving for independence, security, success, sex, and maybe love.”
​--Paul Gravett, author of Comics Art and editor of 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die


"An often underappreciated artist, Matsumoto had a gift for showing how people—in their awkward, apprehensive, and delightfully absurd ways—relate to one another." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Engrossing and deeply moving." — The AV Club

“…this is tonally Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles) territory. A little bit of Harvey Pekar (American Splendor) territory, in American comics, or Seth’s work, in Canada, and I love all this stuff. And Chris Ware. Will Eisner’s Lower East Side depression stories. Everyday people, not Hamlet, let’s just say…It is great that we are getting all of these older manga in translation, to help us get to know all this comics history.”
-David Schaafsma, Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago
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"There's a quietness to these stories. The artwork makes it seem like a gag, but there's a wistfulness and subtlety to these stories...There are some fine stories in here. I'm particularly fond of "A Scarlet Kiss" and "To Somewhere ...", the last two stories in the book. This is definitely not typical manga. There's much more range and depth to be found here. Highly recommended!" - Stewart Tame, Goodreads

"This is an utterly charming book. I've read and re-read it multiple times. It is about the aspirations of gentle souls looking for love in a complicated time as Japan was becoming a rich society after the Pacific war. The characters are conflicted and not entitled. It seems that they don't really think that they can be loved. But they find love around them as they try to survive. There is an underlying theme of complex people finding respect and compassion from unlikely sources in their lives. The compassion that the characters show to each other in their messed up lives yields a message of hope that should resonate with anyone who finds themselves caught in the daily grind of their lives, and who needs a reason to be decent and good to those around them, even when they feel put upon and in despair. It gives one hope. The art is lovely, and sometimes masterful in setting the mood. For me it was the best book of 2016." - 5 star review on amazon
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