Top Shelf to Publish Cigarette Girl
Top Shelf Productions, the American publisher of the AX: Alternative Manga anthology, has announced plans for an English language publication of the late Masahiko Matsumoto’s 2009 collection of vintage gekiga manga Cigarette Girl (Tobacco-ya no Musume). The manga is a collection of realistic, dramatic manga stories for mainstream adult readers originally published in the 1970s. Masahiko Matsumoto, a friend of gekiga pioneers Tatsumi Yoshihiro and Saito Takao, passed away on February 14, 2005 of stomach cancer.
Source: Anime News Network
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Died of cancer? Maybe stop going to the tobakko-ya would had been a good idea.